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Grimms' Fairy Tales And Andersen's Fairy Tales (1963)

by Hans Christian Andersen(Favorite Author)

4.2 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0752527266 (ISBN13: 9780752527260)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Parragon

review 1: I'm a huge fan of fairytales of every kind, and I loved reading the Grimm brothers take on these fairytales. I think they did a great job on Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. I thought they were all very well written, but they included more disturbing factors than I thought they were going to include. I think that the Grimm's stories shouldn't be told to kids right when they are young, because I think the stories are a little too gruesome. Although I do think that young teenagers should read these stories. They might be disturbing, but I found them to be almost more interesting than children fairytales. As for Andersen's take on The Little Mermaid, I thought it was okay, but I am very biased when it comes to this fairytale. Overall the take on these fairytales, we... morere done amazingly well. I would recommend these to people who like darker stories.
review 2: I read so many fairy tales from these authors, and I am still looking for more!!! There are so many different version of each tale, and so many stories from each culture. For example, in 3 different kinds of Cinderella, the stepsisters are either forgiven, ignored, or, as in the French version, their eyes were pecked out by wild birds. In Snow White, she and the Prince forced the Wicked Queen into burnning hot shoes where she was forced to dance 'til she was dead. Even the Little Mermaid was strange as the original, she got lungs and commited suicide by drowning, and is now waiting to go to heaven. But with a diferent spin off of old stories, there are many new ones that have never been heard of. It is fun to read and compare to many other tales, for anyone. less

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