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The Complete Fairy Tales (Vintage Classics)
Belinda Gallagher (Ed.)
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Description for The Complete Fairy Tales (Vintage Classics)
Paperback. Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of gold. This is a collection of folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers. Translator(s): Zipes, Jack David. Num Pages: 1072 pages, b&w. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 47. Weight in Grams: 746.
Your favourite fantastic Grimm fairy tales and bedtime stories in the only complete edition of this classic collection.
Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of gold...the folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers created an astonishingly influential imaginative world. However, this is also a world where a woman serves her stepson up in a stew, a man marries a snake, a princess sleeps with a frog, and an evil queen dances to death in a pair of burning shoes. Violent, funny, disturbing, wise and sometimes beautiful, these stories have intrigued children, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Classics London
Number of pages
1072
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1072
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099511441
SKU
V9780099511441
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About Belinda Gallagher (Ed.)
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) were born in Hanau, Germany. They published the first of their many collections of fairy tales in 1812. The story that they wandered about Germany collecting their tales from the lips of peasants is a fairy tale itself. In fact, they invited educated middle class women into their home to tell them the ... Read more
Reviews for The Complete Fairy Tales (Vintage Classics)
It is hardly too much to say that these tales rank next to the Bible in importance
W.H. Auden The stories, and the figures themselves, have immense vitality, partly because no punches are pulled, and also because no emotion is unrepresented
Margaret Atwood Everyone should possess and know Grimm's Fairy Tales - one of the great books of ... Read more
W.H. Auden The stories, and the figures themselves, have immense vitality, partly because no punches are pulled, and also because no emotion is unrepresented
Margaret Atwood Everyone should possess and know Grimm's Fairy Tales - one of the great books of ... Read more