Jacob Grimm
Kindle Edition | Pages: 486 pages Rating: 3.95 | 3546 Users | 199 Reviews
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Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The collection is commonly known today as Grimm's Fairy Tales (German: Grimms Märchen).The influence of the book was widespread. W. H. Auden praised it, during World War II, as one of the founding works of Western culture...
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| Title | : | Household Tales by Brothers Grimm |
| Author | : | Jacob Grimm |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Public Domain |
| Pages | : | Pages: 486 pages |
| Published | : | 1884 (first published 1812) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fantasy. Fiction. Short Stories. Fairy Tales |
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If it wasn't for the Grimm's collection of fairy tales Disney would be short quite a few princesses. Of course, if you only know the "Disneyized" version you are in for quite a surprise.Reading the collection of tales really allowed me to see the similarities in themes among many of the stories. Many of the stories, such as "Clever Else" and "Fred and Kate", really seemed to be variations of the same tale. In the tale "Roland" it was interesting to see the idea of the evil step-mother's deathAs, it seems, for many others, I read this book for an online course in Fantasy and Science Fiction literature. Although I've read Grimm's fairy tales before, as a child, it was always the "sanitized" version that had been modified to be children's literature instead of the original adult tales. Fascinating differences and a completely different perspective. Interesting introduction to this course.
"Fairy tales" is this magical word that has this beautiful, colorful, dreamy, hopeful sweet taste, it can be actually quite the opposite. And this is very very very obvious in Grimm brothers' fairy tales. Amusing? Sure, they are pretty amusing, with manny shocking, violent scenes. I'll try not to focus on one story in my review, I'd rather talk about the general themes that can be found in almost all the stories: (some of those themes are general in all fairy tales, though)1) The "bad guy" is
The Grimm brothers stories are fairy tales in certain context, and are used just an entertaining with some morals, but there is a lot more to the stories, something more primal and more fundamental to human nature that wants to teach to its audience the importance of several things, two of those I identify as Intelligence or the cunning minds that use their intellect to have things they way and the importance of certain ethics as in keeping ones word.Examples of the importance of intelligence in
I had to read this book for a Fantasy and SciFi class I'm taking at Coursera. I was dreading it at first but actually it flew by. It is funny how many modern book and movie storylines can still be traced to these old tales.
Read for Coursera: Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World. https://www.coursera.org/course/fanta...
I am actually reading this book off of a web site, since I cannot find a copy of it and the website contains more of the brothers grimm stories than this book does. The website is here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/ and the stories are public domain.I love the classical renditions of Grimms fairy tales. I was raised on the watered down Disney versions, which are nice in their own right, but I have always wanted to see these. They are much more violent and (most) get their point across
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