Grimm Fairy Tales

by Jacob Grimm

Welcome to the world of the Brothers a world of heroes and villains, of a prince and his princess, of lives determined by healing spells and fatal curses.

Part of the Legend Classics series In olden times, when wishing still helped... Welcome to the world of the Brothers a world of heroes and villains, of a prince and his princess, of lives determined by healing spells and fatal curses. The stories collected here have formed the basis for some of our most beloved tales, including Cinderella , Hansel and Gretel , Rapunzel , Rumpelstiltskin , Sleeping Beauty , Snow White and more. The Legend Classics
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Metamorphosis
The Railway Children
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Frankenstein
Wuthering Heights
Three Men in a Boat
The Time Machine
Little Women
Anne of Green Gables
The Jungle Book
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Dracula
A Study in Scarlet
Leaves of Grass
The Secret Garden
The War of the Worlds
A Christmas Carol
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Heart of Darkness
The Scarlet Letter
This Side of Paradise
Oliver Twist
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Treasure Island
The Turn of the Screw
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Emma
The Trial
A Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allen Poe
Grimm Fairy Tales

Genres: Classics

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1917

About the author

German philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm in 1822 formulated Grimm's Law, the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-1859), he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812-1815).

Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European p shifted to Germanic f, t shifted to th, and k shifted to h. Indo-European b shifted to Germanic p, d shifted to t, and g shifted to k. Indo-European bh shifted to Germanic b, dh shifted to d, and gh shifted to g.

This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental German Dictionary and his Deutsche Mythologie .

Adapted from Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Gbolahan]

Collection of fairy tales that mostly end up being weird. They were probably rockstar tales in those days when they were written though. Pretty easy to read, your eyes are just skimming over and yet you're grasping what the heck is going on, very repetitive...pretty morbid too (Eg, Chanticleer and Partlet).

Anyways, it got lost with my Kindle app a few weeks ago when I still not done reading it. So.

[Marissa Scott]

For this week's books, I decided to go with seven stories out of the Grimm's Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm and translated by E. V. Lucas, Lucy Crane, and Marian Edwards. I chose to read The Frog Prince, The Fisherman and His Wife, Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Hansel and Gretel. I chose these seven stories to read because they were all ones that I have read some variation of in my life. When I was growing up reading and watching Disney's versions of all of these, I never would have guessed that they originated from very dark and disturbing versions. Reading these original versions now fascinates me and makes me want to read several more stories from this collection because they are so different from what kids are exposed to and what they think are the real stories of these characters. If I would have learned that craving certain vegetables like rapunzel would have got me locked in a tower, I would have never eaten any of them. I know this isn't what happened in the story of Rapunzel, but it still would have scared me to the point of not wanting to be anywhere near vegetables. I find it intriguing how we teach young kids to love these princesses and other fairy tale characters to the point where they dress up like them and idolize them on a daily basis, but in reality, the original stories of them would horrify kids. If kids were to read versions of these characters, such as Grimm's version, I don't think "being a princess" would be a young girls dream job anymore and I don't believe we would have amusement parks that put these characters on a pedestal such as Disney World. I think its good that kids are exposed to the "PG" versions of these stories when young though so they do grow up with the idea that they can be anything they want to be no matter where they come from, but I also think its good that when these kids grow up, they are exposed to the original versions. For me, I had always heard a little bit about the Grimm Brothers, but never read any of their versions until I took a mythology class as a senior in high school. After reading their versions of popular stories, I was shocked to see where they came from. It amazes me how much Disney or kid-friendly versions of these stories take out and change to make these stories more appropriate for young eyes and ears. I would not teach these versions of the stories in my elementary classroom only because I feel that they are not school appropriate for kids who are only ten or eleven at the oldest. I believe they are too harsh and demented for kids this young, but I did really enjoy learning about them in high school when I was older and able to handle the darkness of them without it ruining what I grew up loving. It was definitely an eye opener learning about how different cultures around the world tell these stories compared to ours and how they tell their versions of these stories to even their young kids compared to how we tell our kids the censored versions of them. For next week's book selection, I am going to try to find some of my favorite picture books that I had growing up since next week's theme is picture books. I'm not really sure what titles I will bring in yet since I had so many favorites, but I will probably end up going home and riffling through all the ones that I still have from when I was very young and just starting to read.

[Haythem Bastawy · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very interesting read for a very English translation. Grimm's Fairy Tales are a wonderful compilation of German folk tales and have since their first publication been very popular all over the world. Through numerous translations these tales have been canonised in the heritages of many world cultures and background knowledge of many of these tales is often taken for granted. After all who doesn't know Snow White or Red Riding Hood.

[Charmy]

This is one of those free ebooks found on the iBooks library.

[jess · Rating 4 out of 5]

childhood in a book