Fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm

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Philip Pullman: Fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm (2012, Viking)

405 pages

English language

Published June 9, 2012 by Viking.

ISBN:
978-0-670-02497-1
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OCLC Number:
779263464

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4 stars (1 review)

Two centuries ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of Children's and Household Tales. Now Philip Pullman, one of the most accomplished authors of our time, makes us fall in love all over again with the immortal tales of the Brothers Grimm.

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4 stars

We all know that the original versions of classic fairy tales were weird, but it's good to take a look at exactly how weird they were. Disappearing characters utterly lacking in motives, deviant urges, just plain strange over the top situations that the characters accept as a matter of course, you will find them all here. Also, fairy tales that sound like knockoffs of other, better-known, fairy tales. To me, these represent the primordial soup of storytelling before modern ideas of what stories ought to feature had taken hold.

Subjects

  • Fairy tales

Places

  • Germany