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Title: The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition by Johnny Gruelle, Jack Zipes ISBN: 0-553-38216-0 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fairy tales:unwatered and uncensored
Comment: An excellent collection of the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Its good to find collections of their tales out there that are not just watered down versions. Jack Zipes, who has also translated wonderful editions of the thousand and one nights and a collection of French Fairy Tales(both highly recommended) does an excellent job with the Grimms and provides interesting commentary about the orgins of the tales. My favorite story in particalar was one about a tailor, I can't remember the name.(Yes, I know there are a million stories about tailors but this was the one where the tailor gets blinded and his traveling companion treats him horribly) This edition even includes all of the stories that were even too violent for the Grimm Brothers. One called "How Some Children Played at Slaughtering" is especially unappetizing. All in all I recommend this book to anyone who would like a little enchantment in their lives. By the way, the cover of this book is just gorgous, nice illustrations inside also.
Rating: 5
Summary: Grimm's tales as they should be read!
Comment: True, some (but not all) of the Brothers Grimm stories are gruesome and parents would find it unesay reading them to their children as fairy stories, but then they were never intended to be read predominantly by, or to, children. The Brothers Grimm wrote down their collected oral tales mainly for the bourgeois audiences of 19th century europe, and Jacob Grimm said that whilst the stories were mainly for an adult readership, the fact that children were also beginning to read them was just a bonus. Certainly many of the tales are different to the sweet and innocent versions portrayed by Disney. Don't expect to find cute little animals here! However, expect to find tales with a moral and a recipe for living, as prevelent today as they were nearly 200 years ago. It's a great book, especially with the added bonus of Zipes' introduction which details the history of the Brothers Grimm and their reasons for writing down the tales. Buy it to read to yourself, not your children!
Rating: 5
Summary: Stories For Children?
Comment: This is a very interesting collection of fairy tales. It has the popular forms and ones that I've never even herd about.
I found the omitted tales thrilling and very disturbing. It amuses me how scholars and historians say that fairy tales are damaging to children.
When modern day writting is much more sever.
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Title: The Complete Fairy Tales and Stories by Virginia Haviland, Hans Christian Andersen, Erik Christian Haugaard ISBN: 0385189516 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 09 August, 1983 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, Lily Owens ISBN: 0517092913 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 10 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar ISBN: 0691114692 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Grimm's Grimmest by Jacob Grimm, Maria Tatar, Tracy Arah Dockray, Wilhelm Grimm, Wihelm K. Grimm ISBN: 0811816753 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault by Neil Philip, Sally Holmes, Nicoletta Simborowski, Charles Perrault ISBN: 0395570026 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 16 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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