Selected tales / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm ; translated with an introduction and notes by Joyce Crick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863.

Contributor:

Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859

Crick, Joyce.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Oxford world's classics

Standardized Title:

Selections. English. 2005

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863--Translations into English.

Grimm, Jacob.

Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859--Translations into English.

Grimm, Wilhelm.

Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859.

Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863.

Fairy tales--Germany.

Fairy tales.

Germany.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

lix, 344 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2005]

Summary:

This collection of classic tales also includes some of the less well-known fables, morality tales and comic stories, and an exploration of the origins of the stories and their literary evolution.

Contents:

The Tales

1 The Frog King, or Iron Henry 11

2 Cat and Mouse As Partners 14

3 Our Lady's Child 16

4 The Tale of the Boy Who Set Out To Learn Fear 20

5 The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats 27

6 Faithful John 30

7 The Good Bargain 36

8 The Twelve Brothers 39

9 The Pack of No-good, Low-life Ruffians 44

10 Little Brother and Little Sister 45

11 Rapunzel 51

12 The Three Little Men in the Forest 54

13 Hansel and Gretel 58

14 The Tale of the Fisherman and His Wife 65

15 The Brave Little Tailor 72

16 Ashypet 78

17 The Tale of the Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage 84

18 Mother Holle of the Snow 86

19 The Seven Ravens 88

20 Little Redcap 91

21 The Bremen Town Band 94

22 The Singing Bone 97

23 The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs 98

24 The Girl With No Hands 104

25 Clever Hans 109

26 Sensible Elsie 111

27 The Table-Lay, the Gold-Donkey, and the Club in the Sack 114

28 Little Thumb 122

29 Mrs Fox's Wedding 127

30 The Robber Bridegroom 129

31 Godfather Death 132

32 Thumbling's Travels 135

33 Fitcher's Bird 138

34 The Tale of the Juniper Tree 141

35 Old Sultan 149

36 The Six Swans 151

37 Briar-Rose 155

38 Foundling-Bird 158

39 Snow-White 160

40 Knapsack, Hat, and Horn 168

41 Rumpelstiltskin 172

42 The Golden Bird 175

43 The Golden Goose 181

44 Coat o' Skins 184

45 Jorinda and Joringel 189

46 The Three Children of Fortune 191

47 Six Make Their Way Through the Whole World 193

48 Grandfather and Grandson 198

49 The Tale of Little Hen's Death 198

50 Hans in Luck 200

51 The Fox and the Geese 204

52 The Singing, Soaring Lark 204

53 The Goose-Girl 209

54 The Young Giant 215

55 The King of the Golden Mountain 221

56 The Water of Life 226

57 The Bearskin Man 230

58 Tales of Toads and Adders 235

59 The Jew in the Thorn Bush 236

60 The Bright Sun Brings It To Light 240

61 The Wilful Child 241

62 The Devil and His Grandmother 241

63 One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes 244

64 The Shoes That Were Danced To Tatters 250

65 Iron John 253

66 The Lord's Beasts and the Devil's 260

67 The Little Shepherd Boy 261

68 The Starry Coins 261

69 The Stolen Farthing 262

70 Reviewing the Brides 263

71 The Tale of Cockaigne 263

72 A Tall Tale From Diethmarsch 264

73 A Riddling Tale 265

74 Snow-White and Rose-Red 265

75 Sharing Joy and Sorrow 270

76 The Moon 271

77 The Messengers of Death 273

78 The Unequal Children of Eve 274

79 The Golden Key 276

Children's Legends

80 St Joseph in the Forest 276

81 The Rose 279

82 Our Lady's Goblet 279

Appendix A Selected Earlier Versions 280

Appendix B Selected Tales from the First Edition, Removed for the Second and Subsequent Editions 288

Appendix C Circular Letter Concerning the Collection of Folk Poesy 294

Appendix D Wilhelm Grimm's Last Reflections on the Marchen 298.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0192804790

OCLC:

57211205