The Complete Fairy Tales
Author: The Brothers Grimm
ISBN: 9780099511441
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2008
Pages: 1072
Dimensions: 197mm x 131mm x 49mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
'In oldentimes, when wishing still helped, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful...' - 'The Frog King', Complete Fairy Tales
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, adults, scholars, psychologists and artists for centuries.The only complete edition available of the most famous collection of fairy tales ever published, this collection features the 279 stories in an acclaimed, modern, unexpurgated translation.
ISBN: 9780099511441
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2008
Pages: 1072
Dimensions: 197mm x 131mm x 49mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
'In oldentimes, when wishing still helped, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful...' - 'The Frog King', Complete Fairy Tales
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, adults, scholars, psychologists and artists for centuries.The only complete edition available of the most famous collection of fairy tales ever published, this collection features the 279 stories in an acclaimed, modern, unexpurgated translation.
