The Complete Fairy Tales - Vintage Classics

Your favourite fantastic Grimm fairy tales and bedtime stories in the only complete edition of this classic collection.Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of gold...the folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers created an astonishingly influential imaginative world. However, this is also a world where a woman serves her stepson up in a stew, a man marries a snake, a princess sleeps with a frog, and an evil queen dances to death in a pair of burning shoes. Violent, funny, disturbing, wise and sometimes beautiful, these stories have intrigued children, adults, scholars, psychologists and artists for centuries.The only complete edition available of the most famous collection of fairy tales ever published, this collection features the 279 stories in an acclaimed, modern, unexpurgated translation. Now featuring an introduction from translator Jack Zipes.

ISBN:	9780099511441
Publisher:	Random House
Imprint:	Vintage Classics
Published date:	02 Aug 2007
DEWEY:	398.20943
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Sales rank:	42676
Number of pages:	1019
Weight:	712g
Height:	196mm
Width:	132mm
Spine width:	47mm

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