Grimms' Fairy Tales

Produktbeschreibung

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

For the past two centuries, these delightful stories, gathered together and written down by brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, have entertained and frightened children and adults alike. The lives of Tom Thumb, Cinderella, Rumplestiltskin and the Frog Prince form part of our common heritage: they stimulate the imagination and the heart, and linger at the back of our minds for a lifetime. They are funny, disturbing, wise and compassionate. They speak of joy and terror, happiness and revenge, love and violence.

Arthur Rackham's masterly illustrations have all been hand-coloured by Barbara Frith, one of Britain's leading colourists. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Golden Bird
Hans in Luck
Jorinda and Jorindel
The Travellign Musicians
Old Sultan
The Straw, the Coal and the Bean
The Sleeping Beauty
The Dog and the Sparrow
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
The Fisherman and His Wife
The Willow-Wren and the Bear
The Frog Prince
Cat and Mouse in Partnership
The Goose Girl
The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet
Rapunzel
Fundevogel
The Valiant Little Tailor
Hansel and Gretel
The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage
Mother Holle
Little Red Riding Hood
The Robber Bridegroom
Tom Thumb
Rumpelstiltskin
Clever Gretel
The Old Man and His Grandson
The Little Peasant
Frederick and Catherine
Sweetheart Roland
Snow White
The Pink
Clever Elsie
Ashputtel
The White Snake
The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids
The Queen Bee
The Elves and the Shoemaker
The Turnip
Clever Hans
The Three Languages
The Fox and the Cat
The Four Clever Brothers
Lily and the Lion
The Fox and the Horse
The Blue Light
The Raven
The Golden Goose
The Water of Life
The Twelve Huntsmen
The King of the Golden Mountain
The Seven Ravens
Dr Know-All
The Wedding of Mrs Fox
The Salad
The Youth Who Felt No Fear
King Grisly Beard
Iron Hans
Afterword
Further Reading
Biography 

Autoreninfo

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were born during the 1780s in Hanau, Germany, and studied law at Marburg university. After leaving education, they worked as diplomats and librarians in Kassel. In 1837 they were dismissed from their professorships at the University of Göttingen for refusing to swear allegiance to the new King of Hanover, but were later invited to join the Academy in Berlin, by Frederick William IV of Prussia, where they remained for the rest of their lives. Individually, and as a collaborative team, the brothers were two of the greatest scholars that Germany has produced. Aside from their folktales, they produced many different volumes of research, as well as anthologies of verse and song, and two of Germany's most important linguistic texts, the Deutsche Grammatik (German grammar) and the Deutsche Wörterbuch (German dictionary). Wilhelm died in 1859, at the age of 73, and Jacob died in 1863, at the age of 78.