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Snow White by Jacob Grimm - July 2025
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Cinderella by Charles Perrault - April 2025
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May 28, 2014
Mary Catelli
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
very-old-books,
fairy-tale-collection
They collected a lot of tales.
My edition has nice illustrations by Arthur Rackham, but does not list the translator. Which affects things, from the title onward -- "Iron John" and "Faithful John", but "Hans My Hedgehog" for instance. "Cinderella" vs. "Aschenputtel". Though I wonder a bit about how faithful it is; it's the simile "ugly as night" that inspires it, though in a countryside where nightfall meant expensive lamp oil and firewood and not much light even with that, one can see the connec ...more
My edition has nice illustrations by Arthur Rackham, but does not list the translator. Which affects things, from the title onward -- "Iron John" and "Faithful John", but "Hans My Hedgehog" for instance. "Cinderella" vs. "Aschenputtel". Though I wonder a bit about how faithful it is; it's the simile "ugly as night" that inspires it, though in a countryside where nightfall meant expensive lamp oil and firewood and not much light even with that, one can see the connec ...more
If you read the original version, the stories are not meant to be for young children.
Is a great book to read
Jun 13, 2013
★⋆Devin⋆Blakeney⋆★
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
classic
Dec 18, 2014
Caitlin
marked it as to-read
Jan 03, 2015
WitchBaby
marked it as to-read
Feb 21, 2015
Sam Gillogly
marked it as to-read
Mar 09, 2015
Beeta *Goblin Queen*
marked it as to-read
