ISBN:
9780691160597
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (566 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm : The Complete First Edition
DDC:
398.20943
Keywords:
Fairy tales -- Germany
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Tales -- Germany
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Folklore -- Germany
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in content and style. For the very first time, The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm makes available in English all 156 stories from t
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Rediscovering the Original Tales of the Brothers Grimm; Note on the Text and Translation; VOLUME I; PREFACE TO VOLUME I; 1. The Frog King, or Iron Henry; 2. The Companionship of the Cat and Mouse; 3. The Virgin Mary's Child; 4. Good Bowling and Card Playing; 5. The Wolf and the Seven Kids; 6. The Nightingale and the Blindworm; 7. The Stolen Pennies; 8. The Hand with the Knife; 9. The Twelve Brothers; 10. Riffraff; 11. Little Brother and Little Sister; 12. Rapunzel
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13. The Three Little Men in the Forest14. Nasty Flax Spinning; 15. Hansel and Gretel; 16. Herr FixItUp; 17. The White Snake; 18. The Journey of the Straw, the Coal, and the Bean; 19. The Fisherman and His Wife; 20. A Story about a Brave Tailor; 21. Cinderella; 22. How Some Children Played at Slaughtering; 23. The Little Mouse, the Little Bird, and the Sausage; 24. Mother Holle; 25. The Three Ravens; 26. Little Red Cap; 27. Death and the Goose Boy; 28. The Singing Bone; 29. The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs; 30. Little Louse and Little Flea; 31. Maiden without Hands; 32. Clever Hans
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33. Puss in Boots34. Hans's Trina; 35. The Sparrow and His Four Children; 36. The Little Magic Table, the Golden Donkey, and the Club in the Sack; 37. The Tablecloth, the Knapsack, the Cannon Hat, and the Horn; 38. Mrs. Fox; 39. The Elves; About the Shoemaker for Whom They Did the Work; About a Servant Girl Who Acted as Godmother; About a Woman Whose Child They Had Exchanged; 40. The Robber Bridegroom; 41. Herr Korbes; 42. The Godfather; 43. The Strange Feast; 44. Godfather Death; 45. The Wandering of Thumbling, the Tailor's Son; 46. Fitcher's Bird; 47. The Juniper Tree; 48. Old Sultan
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49. The Six Swans50. Briar Rose; 51. The Foundling; 52. King Thrushbeard; 53. Little Snow White; 54. Simple Hans; 55. Rumpelstiltskin; 56. Sweetheart Roland; 57. The Golden Bird; 58. Loyal Godfather Sparrow; 59. Prince Swan; 60. The Golden Egg; 61. The Tailor Who Soon Became Rich; 62. Bluebeard; 63. The Golden Children; 64. The Simpleton; The White Dove; The Queen Bee; The Three Feathers; The Golden Goose; 65. All Fur; 66. Hurleburlebutz; 67. The King with the Lion; 68. The Summer and the Winter Garden; 69. Jorinda and Joringel; 70. Okerlo; 71. Princess Mouseskin; 72. The Pear Refused to Fall
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73. The Castle of Murder74. Johannes Waterspring and Caspar Waterspring; 75. The Bird Phoenix; 76. The Carnation; 77. The Carpenter and the Turner; 78. The Old Grandfather and the Grandson; 79. The Water Nixie; 80. The Death of Little Hen; 81. The Blacksmith and the Devil; 82. The Three Sisters; 83. The Poor Maiden; 84. The Motherin-Law; 85. Fragments; Snowflower; The Princess with the Louse; Prince Johannes; The Good Cloth; 86. The Fox and the Geese; VOLUME II; PREFACE TO VOLUME II; 1. The Poor Man and the Rich Man; 2. The Singing, Springing Lark; 3. The Goose Girl; 4. The Young Giant
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5. The Gnome
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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