The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales

by Erika Eichenseer, Maria Tatar, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth

Book Overview

A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales--now for the first time in English

Move over, Cinderella: Make way for the Turnip Princess And for the "Cinderfellas" in these stories, which turn our understanding of gender in fairy tales on its head.

With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales--the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen--becomes a quartet. In the 1850s, Franz Xaver...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143107429
• ISBN13: 9780143107422
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"