The Complete Fairy Tales Of The Brothers Grimm translation and illustration by Jack Zipes is a compliation of all the fairy tales Grimm collected and wrote.
Perhaps no other stories posses as much power to enchant, delight, and surprise as those penned by the immortal Brothers Grimm. Now, in the new, expanded third edition, renowned scholar and folklorist Jack Zipes has translated all 250 tales collected and published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, plus twenty-nine rare tales omitted from the original German edition, as well as narratives uncovered to date, this critically acclaimed edition recaptures the fairy tales as the Brothers Grimm intended them to be: rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with folklore song.
One of the world's experts on children's literature, Jack Zipes is a professor of German at the University of Minnesota and is the author of numerous books on folklore and fairy tales.
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SO far I have read a few stories including the Frog King, The Companionship of the Cat and the Mouse, Virgin Mary's Child, and I have started to read A Tale About a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was. These fairy tales are short, however they are vastly different from the sugar-coated fairy tales of today. I really enjoy the writing style, for it pulls the reader in quickly.
ReplyDeleteWith all of the fairy tales, it is interesting to see how they were supposed to be. They still achieve a goal in which a reader is transported into another land, however it is such a different approach. Even though the writing style is simple, it is still compelling due to the shortness but moral of each story.
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