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Selected tales of the Brothers Grimm by Grimm, Wilhelm;Grimm, Jacob;Wortsman, Peter is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"Among the few indispensable, common-property books upon which Western culture can be founded . . . it should be, first and foremost, an educational 'must' for adults."--W. H. Auden, "The New York Times""The one book--other than the Bible--that has truly made Western man."--"The New Republic""It doesn't feel like a warning to naughty infants. It feels like a glimpse of the dreadful side of the nature of things."--A. S. Byatt on "The Juniper Tree""In truth, most of the Grimms' tales cannot be made wholly respectable. . . . Even people who have never known hunger, let alone a murderous stepmother, still have a sense--from dreams, from news broadcasts--of utter blackness, the erasure of safety and comfort and trust. Fairy tales tell us that such knowledge, or fear, is not fantastic but realistic. Though Wilhelm tried to Christianize the tales, they still invoke nature, more than God, as life's driving force, and nature is not kind."--Joan Acocella, "The New Yorker"This new edition and translation of the darkest tales of the Brothers Grimm selected and translated by Peter Wortsman with full-color illustrations by Haitian artists Edouard Duval-Carrie, Pascale Monnin, and Franketienne re

Who reads Selected tales of the Brothers Grimm?

Author

Grimm, Wilhelm;Grimm, Jacob;Wortsman, Peter

Publisher

Steerforth Press;Archipelago Books

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307788061

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Short Stories, Folklore