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Three Fairy Tales
Hauff, Wilhelm; Marchen, Drei
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Description for Three Fairy Tales
Hardcover. Includes three fairytales: "The Cold Heart", "The Cave of Steenfoll" and "Said's Adventures". Illustrator(s): Gieselmann, Reinhard. Num Pages: 96 pages, 35 colour illus. BIC Classification: YFJ. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 296 x 252 x 17. Weight in Grams: 822.
Text in English & German. "Poverty is the greatest plague, wealth is the highest good", Goethe wrote in his ballad "The Treasure Seeker". Over the course of the poem, however, it becomes apparent that this is a mistaken conclusion. The search for riches, fame and power often brings with it greed, inhumanity and violence, as Wilhelm Hauff shows us in this book of fairytales. The best known of these is The Cold Heart, in which the wish for a better life leads Peter Munk the charcoal-burner to seek the help of the spirits of the Black Forest. The first spirit ... Read more
Text in English & German. "Poverty is the greatest plague, wealth is the highest good", Goethe wrote in his ballad "The Treasure Seeker". Over the course of the poem, however, it becomes apparent that this is a mistaken conclusion. The search for riches, fame and power often brings with it greed, inhumanity and violence, as Wilhelm Hauff shows us in this book of fairytales. The best known of these is The Cold Heart, in which the wish for a better life leads Peter Munk the charcoal-burner to seek the help of the spirits of the Black Forest. The first spirit ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783936681338
SKU
V9783936681338
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About Hauff, Wilhelm; Marchen, Drei
Reinhard Gieselmann studied architecture in Danzig and Karlsruhe. From 1969 until 1992, he was professor at the Technische Universität Wien. Gieselmann is one of those who were not satisfied, already in the early post-war years dominated by the credo of rationality, functionalism and formal self-limitation, with explaining building simply as meeting functional needs. Seeing design as a "search of style" ... Read more
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