by Franz Xaver von Schonwerth, Erika Eichenseer, Engelbert Suss, Maria Tatar
Von Schonwerth was a folklorist and a contemporary of Charles Perrault, Han Christian Anderson, and the Brothers Grimm, but unlike those authors he passed away before publishing his collected stories. His work was believed lost until it was rediscovered in a German archive in 2009. The stories lack ...
And Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales In 2012, a bunch of long lost fairy tales were discovered. Now, we can read them for the first time in an English translation. What I really liked about the fairy tales is that they were written down as the local stories of the region. And while some of them ...
Edit: I have no idea why the text decided to appear in bold! Arc provided by Penguin Classics through NetgalleyDNF at 20% "The newly discovered Fairy Tales" part in the title, was what made me request this...since I am a fairy tale addict. Unfortunately, what I discovered was a confusing mish...
Thank you to Penguin Group for providing me with an egallery copy of the book to review. I loved the Grimm fairytales since I was a kid. Safe to say I even grew up on them. Fairytales have always held a special spot in my life when it comes to reading and even now that I’m a teenager I still can s...
bookshelves: net-galley, e-book, published-2015, winter-20142015, fairy-tales Read from February 07 to 19, 2015 Penguin ClassicsDescription: With this volume, the holy trinity of tellers of fairy tales—the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen—becomes a quartet. In the ...
The Turnip Princess And Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales by Franz Xavier von Schönwerth Once upon a time, a collection of five hundred fairy tales were quietly locked away in an obscure archive. And there they languished, forlorn and forgotten, for over a century and a half, until one day, a bra...
Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley. (However, I pre-ordered a kindle edition of the book prior to ARC approval). I had heard of Von Schonwerth before the discovery of his trove by Erika Eichenseer, so I was looking forward to this book. The blurb likens von Schonwerth to Perrault, the G...
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