Grimm's Fairy Stories [Paperback]

Gebrüder Grimm (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General; Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: General Books LLC (March 7, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1153625377
• ISBN-13: 978-1153625371
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,085,194 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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175 of 180 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Grimm's Greatest Hits, June 7, 2010

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T. Simons (Columbia, SC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grimm's Fairy Stories (Kindle Edition)

This is a greatest-hits grab bag of 25 stories from the Grimm's Fairy Tales collection, unillustrated, and apparently taken from the 1884 Margaret Hunt translation. Good collection of the highlights, but there are more complete collections (for example, Household Tales by Brothers Grimm) available for free in the kindle store.

List is:

The Goose-Girl
The Little Brother and Sister
Hansel and Grethel
Oh, if I could but Shiver!
Dummling and the Three Feathers
Little Snow-White
Catherine and Frederick
The Valiant Little Tailor
Little Red-Cap
The Golden Goose
Bearskin
Cinderella
Faithful John
The Water of Life
Thumbling
Briar Rose
The Six Swans
Rapunzel
Mother Holle
The Frog Prince
The Travels of Tom Thumb
Snow White and Rose Red
The Three Little Men in the Wood
Rumpelstiltskin
Little One-eye, Two-Eye, and Three-Eyes

53 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor Selection., October 11, 2010

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BlueFairy (New York, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Grimm's Fairy Stories (Kindle Edition)

Note the title. This is a selection of fairy tales, in fairly poor translation, not the full "Grimm's Fairy TALES", or "Household Stories" collection. There are places where the stories seem to drop off or change direction suddenly mid-stream. "The Little Brother and Little Sister", for example, is missing a paragraph that is in other versions, which is needed to follow the plot.

A few stories seem to have no point or plot at all, or added endings, although "Catherine and Frederick" is only a little worse here than in other versions I have found. Most of the good stories are repeated in better collections.

Only notable bits:

"Bearskin" is one that isn't in every collection of Grimm's Tales, and I found it enjoyable. I prefer the stories like this and "The Six Swans", in which the day is won through persistence and cleverness. Also, he cheats the devil, which is always a nice touch. Many of these stories are solved through nothing more interesting than dumb luck.

This version of "The Frog Prince" has a very beautiful beginning, but the rest of the story is disjointed, uninspired, and annoying.

Overall it was very uneven, and next time I'll search Project Gutenberg for the full tales.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Original?, April 15, 2010

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A. Moreno Diaz "Movie Teller" (Spain) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grimm's Fairy Stories - Original Version (Paperback)

This book was formerly named "First edition" and now "Original version". I bought the "First edition". Once in my hands I found the title rather misleading, It inclined one to think that the book contained the first edition of the tales. But in the first page of the book is stated: "Grimm's fairy stories. 1922". Actually the firts version of Grimm's stories dates back to 1812 - 1814, and they changed the stories several times producing seven different editions until 1857. Then, which original version are you getting?