About this title: 'Once upon a time in mid-winter, when the snowflakes were falling from the sky like down, a queen was sitting and sewing at a window ...' The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familiar, fantastic, homely, and frightening. They seem to belong to no time, or to some distant feudal age of fairytale imagining. Grand palaces, humble cottages, and the forest full of menace are their settings; and they are peopled by kings and princesses, witches and robbers, millers and golden birds, stepmothers and talking frogs. Regarded from their inception both as uncosy nursery stories and as ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1983-02-24
ISBN-13:9780140444018ISBN:0140444017
Description: Good. Covers show general wear and creases, still good solid copy, age-toned and some stains inside cover, some pages folded at corners, binding tight. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780192804792ISBN:0192804790
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2005-08-18
ISBN-13:9780192804792ISBN:0192804790
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Description: Good. A Good copy with a Remainder Mark and wear to the covers and the extremities. Buy with confidence from an Independent Bookstore where the owners, a husband and wife team, have over 30 years of combined bookselling experience. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books, Middlesex, England
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780140444018ISBN:0140444017
Description: Near Fine. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Very little wear; faint horizontal crease to the rear cover top. Quite clean. 422 pages. read more
Description: Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Date Published: 1983-02-01
ISBN-13:9780140444018ISBN:0140444017
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780140444018ISBN:0140444017
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780192804792ISBN:0192804790
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 196 High by 129 Wide by 14 deep in mm. (404) 'once upon a time in mid-winter, when the snowflakes were falling from the sky like down, a queen was sitting and sewing at a window...' the tales gathered by the grimm brothers are at once familiar, fantastic, homely, and frightening. they seem to belong to no time, or to some distant feudal age of fairytale imagining. grand palaces, humble cottages, and the forest full of menace are their settings; and they are peopled by kings ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780199555581ISBN:0199555583
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 196x129 mm. (416) this new translation offers a more representative selection of the grimms' tales by including fables and morality tales as well as all the best known 'fairy' tales. it faithfully conveys the grimms' own texts and provides a wealth of information about the origins of the stories, their literary evolution at the hands of the grimms, with examples of earlier versions and stories that were omitted as being unsuitable for children. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Foreign Language Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9787119008844ISBN:7119008846
Description: VERY GOOD. ISBN 7119008846. Looks unused but some wrinkling. Penguin edition printed in China. Main language English. Weight 300g. read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
"It has been a very interesting voyage for me since my childhood, and the Disney version of such familiar tales. Here are the more scholarly, more engaging editions of a good selection of the stories collected by the Grimm Brothers. I can see where Terry Gilliam gets a lot of his strange visuals, not just for the Brothers Grimm, but also the first of Baron Munchausen's tall tales with the Six Who Went Far in the World. Will and Jake were definitely off in their own world, populated by wicked but easily-fooled witches and queen, useless older siblings, and the more fortunate youngest (usually the third child), and various dead beings brought back to life in innocuous ways. Also a tip for kiddies wanting to get their way, all you have to do is keep badging your parents, and they will let you do all the things that are expressly forbidden. The brevity of these tale spare no unnecessary detail, as most oral tradition gets to the good stuff quickly. Only the few stories translated into a thick brogue to match the Austrian or other Germanic dialect the stories we first written down took their time to get through, often having to reread a passage or flip to the glossary in the appendix. Nice also to see JRR Tolkien's writing on myth and fairy tales referenced in the introduction."
"The Grimm Brothers collected around two hundred stories, and this selection includes about seventy of them. The classics are here--Snow White, Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty. There are half a dozen different versions of the Cinderella story, supplying the reader with a useful occasion to compare some of the forms the story has taken. The notes at the back of the book are helpful, cross-referencing stories with one another according to the motifs employed. The editor of this edition included six stories that have been translated into a Scottish dialect, to give them more "authenticity." I cannot say this actually works to the advantage of the volume, as it requires some work to re-translate these half-dozen stories back into English. Overall, however, it is good to have these stories in a printed form. And for those of you who are interested, these are not bowdlerized versions of the stories--all the violent detail has been left intact."
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