Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales

The Brothers Grimm

Published by Canterbury Classics, an imprint of Printers Row Publishing Group, San Diego, California, 2011

About this Item

New condition elaborately decorated faux leather boards. Includes Introduction by Ken Mondschein, PhD. Translated by Margaret Hunt. Also includes all gilt page edges and a bound-into-the volume red satin ribbon page marker. Illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece and color illustrated front and rear endpapers. "The fairy tales recorded by the Brothers Grimm have been told so many times and in so many ways that almost everyone seems to know them by heart. However, the original stories as they appear in this volume are quite different from what you might expect. Instead of the blunted, dull, and safe versions that many are familiar with, what you will find here are the original, sharp, and somewhat dangerious fairy ttales as recorded by the Brothers Grimm more than 200 years ago. The story of how these works came to permeate our culture, and how they were changes over time and made "safe" for modern children, is as compelling and as important as the fairy tales themselves. [The stories] are certainly documents of the lives and times of the Brothers Grimm and of their search for freedom. THe stories must be judged in their own context as important historical documents. They are, in other words, exactly what the brothers intended them to be: a window into an earlier age, and one of the means by which our own world was created." -- short excerpt from the Introduction by Ken Mondschein, PhD. Seller Inventory # 006801

Bibliographic Details

Title: Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales

Publisher: Canterbury Classics, an imprint of Printers Row Publishing Group, San Diego, California

Publication Date: 2011

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New