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Item Details
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THE COMPLETE FAIRY TALES
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| By: |
The Brothers Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£10.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1407091069 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781407091068 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2010 |
| Pages: |
1072 |
| Description: |
Featuring wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of gold, this title collects folk tales where a woman serves her stepson up in a stew, a man marries a snake, a princess sleeps with a frog, and an evil queen dances to death in a pair of burning shoes. It features 279 stories. |
| Synopsis: |
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JACK ZIPESWolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of gold...the folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers created an astonishingly influential imaginative world. However, this is also a world where a woman serves her stepson up in a stew, a man marries a snake, a princess sleeps with a frog, and an evil queen dances to death in a pair of burning shoes. Violent, funny, disturbing, wise and sometimes beautiful, these stories have intrigued children, adults, scholars, psychologists and artists for centuries.The only complete edition available of the most famous collection of fairy tales ever published, this collection features the 279 stories in an acclaimed, modern, unexpurgated translation. |
| Illustrations: |
b&w |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage Digital |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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