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Selected Tales
Jacob And Wilhelm Grimm
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Description for Selected Tales
Paperback. This collection of classic tales also includes some of the less well-known fables, morality tales and comic stories, and an exploration of the origins of the stories and their literary evolution. Translator(s): Crick, Joyce. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DSY; FC; YFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 288.
'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 ... Read more
'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199555581
SKU
V9780199555581
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About Jacob And Wilhelm Grimm
Joyce Crick was, until her retirement, Senior Lecturer in German at University College London. She has translated widely, including texts by Hamann, Herder, Schlegel, Novalis, and Solger. For Oxford World's Classics she has translated Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams and for the new Penguin Freud series, The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious. She has edited the German material ... Read more
Reviews for Selected Tales
The book that afforded me deepest pleasure is 'Selected Tales' by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (trans Joyce Crick). What a joy to meet Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel and Ashypet again in these sparkling new versions.
Paul Bailey, The Independent
terrific new edition...forcefully translated and brilliantly analysed, by Joyce Crick.
The Independent
Joyce Crick, a fine scholar ... Read more
Paul Bailey, The Independent
terrific new edition...forcefully translated and brilliantly analysed, by Joyce Crick.
The Independent
Joyce Crick, a fine scholar ... Read more