Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days (English and German Edition)

By Jack D. Zipes

Book Overview

Now available in English, 32 stories by 16 authors illuminate an era when disparate political factions battled for young German minds.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874515017
• ISBN13: 9780874515015
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Univ Pr of New England
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Who says fairy tales are just for kids?

This small collection of fairy tales written by different authors in Germany in the 1920s is an intriguing study of modern life. These writers used an older literary form prominent in their shared German heritage to express their ambivalence in contemporary society--gone are the millers, kings, and spirits of Grimm, replaced with the automobiles, noisy cities, and social conflicts of the 1920s and 1930s.