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title: "Selected Tales"
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# Selected Tales

**Brand:** jacob and wilhelm grimm, joyce crick
**Price:** € 22.76
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## Description

'Once upon a time in mid-winter, when the snowflakes were falling from the sky like down, a queen was sitting and sewing at a window ...'
The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familiar, fantastic, homely, and frightening. They seem to belong to no time, or to some distant feudal age of fairytale imagining. Grand palaces, humble cottages, and the forest full of menace are their settings; and they are peopled by kings and princesses, witches and robbers, millers and golden birds, stepmothers and talking frogs.
Regarded from their inception both as uncosy nursery stories and as raw material for the folklorist the tales were in fact compositions, collected from literate tellers and shaped into a distinctive kind of literature. This new translation mirrors the apparent artlessness of the Grimms, and fully represents the range of less well-known fables, morality tales, and comic stories as well as the classic tales. It takes the stories back to their roots in German Romanticism and includes variant stories and tales that were deemed unsuitable for children. In her fascinating introduction, Joyce Crick explores their origins, and their literary evolution at the hands of the Grimms. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Dimensions | 19.3 x 2.03 x 12.7 cm |
| Edition | 1st |
| Isbn 10 | 0199555583 |
| Isbn 13 | 978-0199555581 |
| Item Weight | 1.05 kg |
| Language | English |
| Print Length | 416 pages |
| Publication Date | 30 July 2009 |
| Publisher | OUP Oxford |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent study book
*by  on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 9 March 2025*

Excellent transaction!!!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Five Stars
*by  on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 11 February 2015*

very good and as described

### ⭐⭐ A huge disappointment
*by  on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 5 December 2019*

So, until I read this collection I thought I knew the stories of the Brothers Grimm pretty well. I stand corrected. Of the 82 stories collected here, I recognised less than 30. I didn’t enjoy this as much as I enjoyed the Hans Christian Andersen stories I read last week. Many of the stories are very short, and in fact a few are less than a page long. I enjoyed the stories I knew. The stories I didn’t know left me cold. The characters are all poorly developed and irritatingly similar. Some of the stories didn’t make much sense and they were, for the most part, very bland. Also, there were several stories in a row more than once which were almost identical.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Selected Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
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