Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm II

By Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Wilheim Grimm, et al.

Book Overview

Enchanting, brimming with the wonder and magic of??Once Upon A Time, the fairy tales??of the Brothers Grimm are the special stories of??childhood that stay with us throughout our lives.??But most Americans know them only secondhand, in??adaptations that greatly reduce the tales' power to??touch our emotions and intrigue our imaginations.??Now, in the most comprehensive translation to??date, here are the classic fairy tales as the Bothers??Grimm intended them to be--rich, stark, spiced??with humor and violence, resonant with the rhythms of??folklore and song. Volume II contains 142??unabridged tales, including such bedtime favorites as??"Snow White and Rose Red" and "The??Worn-Out Dancing Shoes," as well as 32 little-known??tales that the Brothers Grimm omitted during the??course of their many revisions. These wonderful??tales of life, passion, and make-believe appeal not??only to children--who unabashedly love them--but??to readers of any age.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553212516
• ISBN13: 9780553212518
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Bantam Classics
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This books is GORGEOUS. <3 <3

This book is beauuuutiful. The paperback version is made of some kind of leather, which makes it flexible and easy to manipulate to read it more comfortably, and the words on the cover are printed in it so you can feel the texture. I LOVE IT. <3. Now, the translations are a bit different. As if a modern english story, not the english used before. Example, instead of starting as "Once upon a time", the stories would start with "There was once". The name of some tales are also different. Like "The Prince who feared nothing" in this book is "The king's son who feared nothing". And so on with some other tale names. Just letting you know in case this matters to you, and you prefer the unabridged version. Also, I really wish I could find volume I from this same editor, to have the 2 volumes as a collection.