Household Tales by Brothers Grimm [Paperback]

Jacob Grimm (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 7, 2010

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: Fiction / Short Stories; Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales

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About the Author

Cooper Edens, with Starsnap Studio, owns one of the largest collections of vintage picture books in the world. His other books in the Classic Illustrated collection include Princess Stories, The Big Book of Little, and Sea Stories, all published by Chronicle Books. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 422 pages
• Publisher: General Books LLC (March 7, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1153629291
• ISBN-13: 978-1153629294
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,830,739 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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182 of 182 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As close to the original as you're likely to find for free, June 6, 2010

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T. Simons (Columbia, SC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Household Tales by Brothers Grimm (Kindle Edition)

This is an ebook edition of Margaret Hunt's 1884 translation of the *complete* Brother's Grimm (i.e., the 211-tale "large edition," intended for adults and scholars). As such, the language is slightly archaic, and the text itself is lengthy, with the tradeoff that this version does contain the entire collection of stories in the forms the Grimms gave them. Thus,expect the language to be slightly different from what you might remember reading before ("Little Red Riding Hood" is here "Little Red-Cap") and the stories may contain more crudity, violence, and (occasionally) anti-semitism than the versions most people are familiar with. Similarly, several stories normally expurgated from later editions (i.e., "The Jew Among Thorns") are present in this collection.

There's no indexed table of contents, so you'll have to use the kindle's "find" feature to jump to specific stories, and there are some typographical/transcription errors, etc.. It also doesn't appear to contain the Grimm's or Hunt's scholarly footnotes. Still, this is a great overall grab for a free kindle ebook, and probably perfect for lunch-break reading and the like.

A little context: The Brothers Grimm were the first to make a significant scholarly attempt to collect the "original" versions of traditional folk tales, as told by ordinary people. They didn't always adhere perfectly to that dictum -- some of the stories they collected from print sources and educated, middle-class tale-tellers, not just the "common folk" -- but they were in many ways the first scholarly folklorists. They were also German nationalists, and their collections were intended to help foster a sense of German national identity and "German virtues."

Because the Grimms did edit their stories somewhat, and because many of these are traditional stories that exist in many versions in many nations, there are often versions that are "earlier" and more primal than the ones here. If you find yourself wanting more, I'd recommend you look up works by Charles Perrault or Andrew Lang; Perrault's tales pre-date the Grimms' and are often more violent (i.e., Red Riding Hood gets eaten); Andrew Lang's post-date the Grimms and are intended for children, but both should be out of copyright and available in free online editions.

46 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great collection, Navigable if you use the Kindle search function, March 27, 2010

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Curious "Curious" (North Carolina) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Household Tales by Brothers Grimm (Kindle Edition)

This is a great collection of the Brothers Grimm's tales. The table of contents is a listing of all of the titles (no point and click) (which by the way there are over 200 tales) but just type in the title that you want into your Kindle (using the find function) and it takes you right to the story! Titles are in English and German. And the stories are wonderful. (Remember this is the real Brothers Grimm so all stories may not be appropriate for the youngest of listeners.)

30 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars omg there's so many, December 25, 2009

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Kristin L. Ranck "Your Fan Club President" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Household Tales by Brothers Grimm (Kindle Edition)

let me just say i am NOT going to type out all these titles...there are 200 of them!!

but some popular ones i saw were:
cinderella
rapunzel
snow white
sleeping beauty (little briar rose)
little red riding hood (little red cap)
Lots of others...but just too many...it's free anyway get it. im sure it will have what you're looking for.