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1. Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Jacob, 1785-1863Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859 Grimm | |
Kindle Edition:
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(2004-03-01)
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2. Selected Tales (Oxford World's Classics) by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm | |
Paperback: 404
Pages
(2005-08-18)
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A decent collection of these famous stories The book opens with an interesting introduction, which shows how the Grimms were the first to seriously record folk wonder tales in a literary form, putting them in good prose but still maintaining respect for the original stories.(The earlier French writers drew on folktales, but altered them into tales of courtly intrigue, and sometimes told them in a snickering, sarcastic style.)Then, of course, come the tales themselves, well-written and yet hauntingly simple. Note:This is an edition for the grown-ups. No illustrations.Visually, it looks like a textbook rather than a book of fairy tales.I do need to buy a pretty edition someday, to pass on to my hypothetical kids.:) ... Read more |
3. The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales, Deluxe Edition (Literary Classics (Gramercy Books)) by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm | |
Hardcover: 704
Pages
(2006-10-03)
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Excellent Collection
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4. The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World by Jack Zipes | |
Paperback: 384
Pages
(2002-12-18)
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A mishmash of everything
For serious students of European fantasy literature |
5. The Brothers Grimm: Two Lives, One Legacy by Donald R. Hettinga | |
Hardcover: 192
Pages
(2001-10-15)
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Two Lives, One Legacy
Fine biographical coverage |
6. Inventors and Creators - The Brothers Grimm (Inventors and Creators) by Raymond H. Miller | |
Hardcover: 48
Pages
(2005-09-02)
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7. The Brothers Grimm & Their Critics: Folktales and the Quest for Meaning by Christa Kamenetsky | |
Hardcover: 400
Pages
(1992-07)
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8. Terrors of Childhood in Grimms' Fairy Tales (Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics) by Winfried G. Kudszus | |
Paperback: 149
Pages
(2005-09)
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9. The Reception of Grimms' Fairy Tales: Responses, Reactions, Revisions | |
Paperback: 347
Pages
(1996-02)
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10. Grimms' Fairy Tales: A History of Criticism on a Popular Classic (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) by James M. McGlathery | |
Hardcover: 144
Pages
(1993-12)
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11. Grimm Brothers and the Germanic Past (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science Series III: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences) by Elmer H. Antonsen, James W. Marchand | |
Hardcover: 172
Pages
(1990-09)
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12. The Owl, The Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales by G. Ronald Murphy | |
Hardcover: 208
Pages
(2000-07-20)
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Having Read A Selection
"Not withstanding" is right!
A Link in a Long Chain of Grace. If I were going to pick a word to describe the overall impression the author gives me, I think it would be "kindly."At first I sometimes got the feeling I was listening in on someone else's conversation: Murphy forgets his readers and his partners in academic dialogue are strangers, and need to be introduced.But once everyone is seated for discussion, Murphy is generous not only to the Grimms (he sometimes tells how good a writer Wilhelm is, when he should be showing), he treats other scholars with respect (not a universal habit in academia), and describes the ironic skepticism or sexual crudities of rival versions of these tales without downplaying those approaches, yet bringing out the special depth of the Grimm's mythical imagination and spiritual feeling. The main subjects of this book are Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Cindarella, and Sleeping Beauty.(But don't overlook Appendix A, a closer look at Wilhelm Grimm's New Testament, or Appendix C, the story of the Cross and the Christmas tree.It was the star on top of the latter that furnished the fifth star for this rating.) The story Murphy tells is one link in a chain of grace that goes back thousands of years.Early Christian thinkers saw classical philosophy and myth as a "tutor" to bring the Western world to Christ.Dante and Michaelangelo picked up on the same theme in the Middle Ages.G. K. Chesterton described how, as a child, he learned reason and morality, and intimations of spiritual truth, from fairy tales, naming some of the stories in this book, but without talking about Christianity in particular.Later he wrote a book, Everlasting Man, in which he described pagan mythology in similiar sympathetic terms.This is the book that helped C. S. Lewis, who would become the most influential Christian writer of the 20th Century, to conclude that the Gospel was the answer to the question, "Where have all the hints of Paganism been fulfilled?"Later Lewis brought the story full circle with his own redemptive fairy tales, the Chronicles of Narnia.So the story Murphy tells is of interest historically, as well as for the remarkable light it sheds on our favorite fairy tales.It is one link in a chain of grace that no man on earth can fully know. For those interested in the bigger picture, let me recommend some good books: City of God (Augustine); Contra Celsus (Origin); Everlasting Man and Orthodoxy (Chesterton); Eternity in Their Hearts (Don Richardson); Jesus Through the Centuries (Jaroslav Pelikan); The Crown of Hinduism (J.N.Farquhar); and Discovery of Genesis.(with reservations - see my Amazon review.)Also, of course, my own books, Jesus and the Religions of Man, and True Son of Heaven: How Jesus Fulfills the Chinese Culture. My four year old boy spied the cover of this book, with its picture of Snow White and the owl, raven, and dove, and asked for an explanation."The prince came and kissed Snow White and shecame back to life," I told him."Is (the prince) God?" He asked.Murphy shows that the Brothers Grimm still have the power to solicit deep spiritual questions from people of all ages.
Magnificent achievement I note that one of the other reviews of this book claims that Murphy says the tales are of Christian origin. But this is not the case; rather, he suggests that the tales contain elements of Greco-Roman, Egyptian, Germanic, and French folklore. The point is, as Murphy so masterfully demonstrates, that the Grimms took this material and exposed its latent Christian meaning. This is one of the best books about Grimm's tales to come across in many year; highly recommended.
not withstanding |
13. The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar | |
Paperback: 360
Pages
(2003-05-06)
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Editorial Review Book Description Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales figures as the subject matter for this intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and Household Tales. This updated and expanded second edition includes a new preface and an appendix containing new translations of six tales, along with commentary by Maria Tatar. Throughout the book, Tatar skillfully employs the tools not only of a psychoanalyst but also of a folklorist, literary critic, and historian to examine the harsher aspects of these stories. She presents new interpretations of the powerful stories in this worldwide best-selling book. Few studies have been written in English on these tales, and none has probed their allegedly happy endings so thoroughly. Customer Reviews (8)
Profoundly Disappointing
Interesting
The Riddles Of Classic Fairy Tales
close look at the uncensored tales
Could be better |
14. Grimm's Last Fairytale: A Novel by Haydn Middleton | |
Hardcover: 256
Pages
(2001-03-16)
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Mesmerizing
MAGICAL ARTISTRY |
15. Once upon Time by Quackenbush | |
Hardcover:
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(1986-02-01)
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16. Darkest Desire: The Wolf's Own Tale by Anthony Schmitz | |
Hardcover: 134
Pages
(1998-11-01)
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Editorial Review Amazon.com Schmitz does have a point he's trying to make about the individual's obligation to his own true nature, no matter how perverse, versus his duty to conform to social norms. In exploring this dichotomy, the author skewers psychotherapy--or at least the most opportunistic practitioners of it--and paints Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm as the 19th-century equivalent of tabloid journalists, willing to go to any length to get their story, even if it means manufacturing it.All this might have worked had the wolf's proclivities been less revolting. Unfortunately, there's just no argument to be made in favor of baby-killing as a form of self-expression. Darkest Desire is well written but deeply unpleasant to read.--Alix Wilber Now Wolf must make a decision. Can the satisfaction of a "normal" life outweigh the joys of his perversion? Are his desires truly dreanged, or is he simply giving full expression to his personal nature? Does he have an obligation -- as his occasional companion Devil argues -- to live as a unique individual in the manner to which he was born? Customer Reviews (5)
A good and dark tale of morality
Enjoyable short read
A fur-raising tale Thepassages about the tastiness of human puppies are somewhat offensive.Acanine is more likely to protect a human child from human predators than toeat the child himself.However, "Schmitz" does make it clearthat the child-eating wolf is no more typical of canines than HannibalLecter is of humans.In a nice twist on an idea used decades ago byClifford Simak in "City", Schmitz makes use of the canine abilityto perceive and interact with phenomena beyond human perception.
Twice Told Tails
A splendid and original idea well done |
17. The Wrestler's Cruel Study: A Novel by Stephen Dobyns | |
Hardcover: 426
Pages
(1993-08)
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Hmmmm
Probably the Most Unique Book You'll Read This Year...
smartly funny
Gimmick is form pretending to be substance.... As the book jacket suggests, we begin by observing an apartment complex where we witness two gorillas scale the outside wall to gain entry. Once inside, they kidnap a young woman wearing only her nightgown and steal her away. Her fiancé, a professional wrestler, is warned against soliciting the help of the police in her recovery; and he is given no motive for the kidnapping or asked for a ransom of any kind. In an effort to discover her whereabouts and gain her safe return, the wrestler embarks on a search that, he discovers, will do more to unravel the mystery of who he is than it will to find the one he loves. Here is a book that manages to be, among other things: a study in identity and the perception of the self; a nightmare; a story of redemption; absurdist theater designed to illustrate philosophical argument; and a big-dicked perversion of Nietzschean philosophy, albeit a charming and gravely humorous one. In the book Mr. Dobyns makes much of "gimmick." Put another way, he makes much of the masks that we wear, focusing on how they serve us, but more importantly, how they do us disservice. In illustrating the many ways that it is possible for one to bandage his or her wounds, and wear layer upon layer of these dressings or masks, he has created fully-realized characters with all manner of human strength and frailty. To have done so without judgment is, to my mind, a huge achievement. Each of the characters that populate this wild and enormously entertaining novel is developed with the skill of one who really seems to understand what it means to be human. Each of them has much to learn about life, their connections with others and, perhaps most importantly, with themselves. As lucky readers, this all serves to do the same for us. It asks rather big questions and gives no simple answers. Again, this is quite a feat for a fiction. We are asked, "When we look in a mirror, do we see ourselves or a committee?" I submit that if we look closely enough, this book, like any good looking glass, might just give us a glimpse of who we are.
Stephen Dobyns, always a cruel study with which to wrestle The book simply works at many levels.I suppose a wrestling fan could almost read it literally and enjoy it as a hero/detective novel.Anyone with a taste for the absurd can merely enjoy the wonderful twists of fortune and circumstance the characters find themselves in.With an appreciation for Nietzche, arcane studies of Hebrew and Christian theology, a sense of Jungian analysis and a penchant for many-layered, indeed entwined metaphors on top of the rest, I was delighted. If you like any of Dobyn's other works, or the twisted yet familiar view of humanity common to writers such asAnne Tyler, John Irving or Tom Robbins, you will likely enjoy this book as much as I did. ... Read more |
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