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Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm: with 24 full-color illustrations by Haitian artists

"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-Carrié, Pascale Monnin, and Frankétienne restores the visceral edge and violence of these enigmatic narratives, and will include a few of Grimms' oft-neglected, grislier tales, including "The Juniper Tree."

Jakob Karl Grimm was born in 1785 in Hanau, Germany. His brother, Wilhelm Karl Grimm, followed in 1786. As court librarians, linguists, scholars, translators, and writers, they collected stories told by peasants and villagers and published them in written form, shaping the foundation of the most popular children's stories today. For most of their lives, they worked in the same room, at facing desks.

Peter Wortsman, recipient of the Beard's Fund Short Story Award, was selected as a 2010 Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.

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Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm: with 24 full-color illustrations by Haitian artists

"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-Carrié, Pascale Monnin, and Frankétienne restores the visceral edge and violence of these enigmatic narratives, and will include a few of Grimms' oft-neglected, grislier tales, including "The Juniper Tree."

Jakob Karl Grimm was born in 1785 in Hanau, Germany. His brother, Wilhelm Karl Grimm, followed in 1786. As court librarians, linguists, scholars, translators, and writers, they collected stories told by peasants and villagers and published them in written form, shaping the foundation of the most popular children's stories today. For most of their lives, they worked in the same room, at facing desks.

Peter Wortsman, recipient of the Beard's Fund Short Story Award, was selected as a 2010 Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.

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Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm: with 24 full-color illustrations by Haitian artists

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Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm: with 24 full-color illustrations by Haitian artists

Overview

"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-Carrié, Pascale Monnin, and Frankétienne restores the visceral edge and violence of these enigmatic narratives, and will include a few of Grimms' oft-neglected, grislier tales, including "The Juniper Tree."

Jakob Karl Grimm was born in 1785 in Hanau, Germany. His brother, Wilhelm Karl Grimm, followed in 1786. As court librarians, linguists, scholars, translators, and writers, they collected stories told by peasants and villagers and published them in written form, shaping the foundation of the most popular children's stories today. For most of their lives, they worked in the same room, at facing desks.

Peter Wortsman, recipient of the Beard's Fund Short Story Award, was selected as a 2010 Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781935744764
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Publication date: 05/14/2013
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 7.20(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 8 - 12 Years

About the Author

About The Author

Brothers Grimm: Jakob Karl Grimm was born on January 4, 1785, in Hanau, Germany. His brother, Wilhelm Karl Grimm, was born on February 24, 1786. Court librarians, linguists, scholars, translators, and writers, the Brothers Grimm collected stories told by peasants and villagers and published them in written form, forming the foundation of the most popular children's stories today.

Peter Wortsman: Recipient of the 1985 Beard’s Fund Short Story Award, the 2008 Gertje Potash-Suhr Prosapreis of the Society for Contemporary American Literature in German, the 2012 Gold Grand Prize for Best Travel Story of the Year in the Solas Awards Competition, Peter Wortsman was a Fulbright Fellow in 1973, a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellow in 1974, and a Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2010. He is the author of a book of short fiction, A Modern Way to Die: Small Stories and Microtales, 1991; the plays The Tattooed Man Tells All, 2000, and Burning Words, 2006; and the travelogue/memoir Ghost Dance in Berlin, a rhapsody in gray, forthcoming in 2013 from Travelers’ Tales/Solas House. Wortsman’s numerous translations from the German include Telegrams of the Soul: Selected Prose of Peter Altenberg; Travel Pictures, by Heinrich Heine; Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, by Robert Musil; Peter Schelmiel, The Man Who Sold His Shadow, by Adelbert von Chamisso; Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist; and, most recently, Tales of the German Imagination, From The Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann, an anthology he assembled, forthcoming in 2013 from Penguin Classics. He works as a medical and travel journalist.

Read an Excerpt

The Tale of the Juniper Tree

It happened long, long ago, more than two thousand years gone by. There was a rich man who had a beautiful and God-fearing wife, and they loved each other very much. But they had no children, much as they badly wanted them. And the woman prayed so hard day and night, but still she had no children, not a one. Now in the yard, in front of their house, stood a juniper tree. One day in winter the woman stood beneath it, peeling herself an apple, and as she peeled she cut her finger, and the blood dripped into the snow.

Table of Contents

Foreword Brothers Grimm vii

The Golden Key 3

The Singing Bone 4

The Tale of the Juniper Tree 7

Hansel and Gretel 19

The Golden Goose 29

The Owl 35

A Fairy Tale About a Boy Who Set Out to Learn Fear 38

The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs 50

The Brave Little Tailor 60

The Frog King, or Iron Henry 71

The White Snake 77

The Queen of the Bees 82

The Drummer 86

The Marvelous Minstrel 98

The Musicians of Bremen 102

The Children of Hameln 106

The Master Thief 110

The Blue Light 120

Tom Thumb 126

Faithful Johannes 133

Hans My Hedgehog 143

All-Kind-of-Hide 150

The Seven Ravens 157

The Leaping, Peeping Little Lion's Lark 160

The Girl with No Hands 168

Rumpelstilzchen 175

Rapunzel 183

The Robber Bridegroom 187

Sleeping Beauty, or Thorny Rose 191

Cinderella 195

Snow White 205

Little Red Riding Hood 214

Schlaraffenland 220

An Afterword: Facing Fears and Furies: The Unexpurgated Brothers Grimm 223

The Return of Little Red Riding Hood in a Red Convertible: A Postscript 237

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