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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

Jacob Grimm,

Wilhelm Grimm

Start date: April 1, 2021

Finish date: June 30, 2021

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Jan 01, 2021 Shirley (stampartiste) rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-classics, challenge-bingo-2021

The best thing I can say about Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales is that I have finally finished it. A 3-month reading plan turned into an 8-month long reading plan, as I needed numerous breaks.

I totally disliked it. This 652-page book contains 201 Fairy Tales and 10 Children's Legends. The fairy tales are extremely dark, violent tales (chopped off heads and other extremities, cannibalism, mistreatment of children, ...). There's no way Walt Disney would have brought Grimm's original Snow White, Cinde ...more

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Nov 12, 2014 Antonomasia marked it as varying-degrees-of-interest · review of another edition

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There have been rather a lot of versions of fairytales purporting to be original and unbowdlerised, so I'm not sure just how different this book is.

Regardless, I thought Zipes intro & notes for Peter Pan were excellent, not going for the boringly obvious. Suspect Marina W. might still be better on how fairytales reflect social history, as she's got whole books on that. ...more

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Feb 18, 2013 Ashleigh marked it as on-the-back-burner · review of another edition

Shelves: classic-lit

My Favourites:
1.) Briar Rose {the best version of sleeping beauty}
2.) The Twelve Dancing Princesses {sly, wise, old codger}
3.) The Goose-girl {talking dead horse head = freaky}
4.) Fundervogel {sweet kids who become murderer's}
5.) The Robber Bridegroom {gruesome}
6.) Frederick & Catherine {take responsibility}
7.) The Pink {"until flames bursts from his throat"}
8.) The Fox and the Cat {''You with your hundred arts are left in the lurch!"}

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