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THE TURNIP PRINCESS
AND OTHER NEWLY DISCOVERED FAIRY TALES |
| By: |
Franz Xaver von Schonwerth, Maria Tatar (Editor), Erika Eichenseer (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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£7.29 |
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£2.70 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0143107429 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780143107422 |
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| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
24 February, 2015 |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Translated from: |
German |
| Description: |
A volume, in which, the holy trinity of fairy tales - the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen - becomes a quartet. |
| Synopsis: |
A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales - now for the first time in English. With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales - the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen - becomes a quartet. In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schonwerth traversed the forests, lowlands, and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales, gaining the admiration of even the Brothers Grimm. Most of Schonwerth's work was lost - until a few years ago, when thirty boxes of manu-scripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive. Now, for the first time, Schonwerth's lost fairy tales are available in English. Violent, dark, and full of action, and upending the relationship between damsels in distress and their dragon-slaying heroes, these more than seventy stories bring us closer than ever to the unadorned oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted, revolutionizing our understanding of a hallowed genre. 'Schonwerth's tales have a compositional fierceness and energy rarely seen in stories gathered by the Brothers Grimm or Charles Perrault' -The New Yorker'Schonwerth's legacy counts as the most significant collection in the German-speaking world in the nineteenth century' - Daniel Drascek, University of RegensburgFranz Xanver von Schonwerth (1810-1886) was born in Bavaria and had a successful career in lawand the Bavarian royal court before devoting himself to researching the customs of his homeland and preserving its fairy tales and folklore.Maria Tatar chairs the program in folklore and mythology at Harvard, and has edited and translated many collections of fairy tales. Eeika Eichenseer is a historian and preservationist working for the Bavarian government and the director of theFranz Xaver von Schonwerth Society. |
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UK |
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Penguin Classics |
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