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Grimms Märchen - Vollständige, überarbeitete Und Illustrierte Ausgabe (1901)

by Jacob Grimm(Favorite Author)

4.29 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Null Papier Verlag

review 1: I usually love my fairytales but this book was literally just not one of the better collections of Grimm that they have out there. The majority of the stories within here were just a copy of a story that they had fifty or a hundred pages from there but with bits and pieces changed around to make it seem like any story while most of the stories that had multiple sons always had a dumb younger son by the name of Hans *smh*. The collection did stick with some of the darker themes and morals that the original fairytales were known for where mothers weren't always sweeter and better than stepmoms while the fathers weren't always there for their children such as Cinderella's father who turned an unseeing eye on the situation of his only daughter. Even though this was suppose to ... morehave been illustrated there weren't enough pictures to catch my fancy while the monotonous use of archaic English throttled almost any sense. Glad I finished it I will be off looking for a better compiled collection of Grimm tales.
review 2: They collected a lot of tales.My edition has nice illustrations by Arthur Rackham, but does not list the translator. Which affects things, from the title onward -- "Iron John" and "Faithful John", but "Hans My Hedgehog" for instance. "Cinderella" vs. "Aschenputtel". Though I wonder a bit about how faithful it is; it's the simile "ugly as night" that inspires it, though in a countryside where nightfall meant expensive lamp oil and firewood and not much light even with that, one can see the connection.But there's a lot of variety. Mine put them in any which way -- as witness that "The Golden Key" was one of the earlier ones. It has a number of beast tales. Tales of common life, mostly about fools or about tricksters, and a man who choose his wife by giving three women cheese and seeing how they cut off the rind, and another who rejected his betrothed for her servant girl when he realized that she was so sloppy with her spinning that the servant girl had made of a dress of the odds and ends of flax. Legends -- though "St. Joseph in the Woods" is the kind and unkind girls, odd only for the number of girls. And of course, a lot of fairy tales. Only a tiny fraction of which are well known. For instance, in spite of Disney, there are a lot of a tales featuring boys: "The Water of Life", "Bearskin", "The King's Son Who Feared Nothing", "The Drummer", and many more.Those who have read a lot of fairy tales will of course get to see the classic types in a German varinat.Some, like "The Goose Girl At the Well" and "Jorinda and Joringel" seem to show their literary origins. Others have motifs you don't quite expect, like the ending of "The King of the Golden Mountain" or "The Old Witch."Fun sometimes to see motifs from story to story -- "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", "The Water of Life", and "The Three Languages" all feature a character intended to be murdered in the woods though they always get away. less

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irisrachel

Shoot me now.This will probably be the only book I rate before I finish. I feel like I've read over a hundred stories from Grimm's Fairy Tales already and I might be going mad. Most of the stories suck and just seem like fillers. I can't see this turning around and becoming great suddenly which is why I'm rating this early. I think the stories I've read already are good predictors of what's to come.I could seriously have written this story and it would've been published in that book:There once was a goose with one leg. The other geese always made fun of him and it made him very sad. Then one day a fanciful magician walked by and spoke to the goose. Presently, the goose asked the magician to give him another leg. And so the magician asked him to do but one task. "Fetch me a beautiful princess who has golden eyes and I will give you another leg." So the goose went out into the woods and fetched a princess with golden eyes and gave her to the magician. The magician gave the goose another leg and they all lived happily ever after......and then a million of other stories just like that, some with morals, many that have no point at all and are just downright stupid. I gave this 2 stars instead of one only because the stories that are good are great. Out of the hundred and something I've read there have only been about 5 good ones and those are the ones you've heard of before. So there's a reason those have lived on and are still talked about today.Expect to read the word "presently" in every story sometimes more than once. I MIGHT finish this. MIGHT.

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لا أدري كيف يمكن أن تكون مثل هذه القصص موجهة للأطفال!القصص بعضها أقل ما توصف به أنها دموية، وأخرى بلهاء لا ترقى حتى لعقول الصغار!معظم القصص لا تحمل أي رسالة على عكس ما يجب أن تكون عليه قصص الأطفال جذبني عنوان الكتاب لإعجابي بفيلم Tangled ولكن حتى قصة رابونزل لم تكن تشابه أحداث الفيلم كثيرًاالنجمة الواحدة لبعض القصص - القليلة جدًا - التي أعجبتني

MisterTibbs

Read this to Eli before bed every night. He loved picking out which story to read.

emileekate

I always wanted to read the original fairy tales not the messy Disney versions

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