The Annotated Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm

How Children Played Butcher With Each Other (second version).

of Wie Kinder Schlachtens miteinander gespielt haben ( I) 1812) short story by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (trans.How Children Played Butcher With Each Other (first version).She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.KHM (Kinder- und Hausmärchen) ? KHM (Kinder- und Hausmaerchen) She is also the editor and translator of The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, The Annotated Brothers Grimm, The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales, The Annotated Peter Pan, The Classic Fairy Tales: A Norton Critical Edition and The Grimm Reader. She is the author of Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood, Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood and many other books on folklore and fairy stories. Maria Tatar chairs the Program in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University. Read more studied law in the early 1800s but became much better known as an accomplished and passionate storyteller and, with his brother Jacob, one of the Grimm Brothers, who gave the world the groundbreaking and fantastic collection of folklore, fairy stories, and fantasy tales we now call Grimm's Fairy Tales. Also a librarian and dictionary writer, Jacob was an acclaimed linguist and academic who elaborated Grimm's Law, a major historical breakthrough in the development of the study of linguistics. Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) is the author, along with his brother Wilhelm, of the classic tales of folklore and fantasy collectively known as Grimm's Fairy Tales. A perennial favorite in the acclaimed Norton Annotated series, this magnificent volume will draw both children and adults into the enchanting world of fairy tales.

Read more enhanced selection of illustrations, many in color, by legendary artists such as George Cruikshank and Arthur Rackham annotations that explore the historical origins, cultural context, and psychological effects of the tales and a biographical essay on Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Adding to such favorites as Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, and Rapunzel, Maria Tatar includes six new entries, among them Four Clever Brothers, The Water of Life, The White Snake, and The Old Man and His Grandson. The Annotated Brothers Grimm returns in a deluxe and augmented 200th-anniversary edition commemorating that landmark event. Publication of the Grimms' Children's Stories and Household Tales in 1812 brought the great European oral folk tradition into print for the first time. Num Pages: 552 pages, 75 color, 75 black-and-white illustrations. Celebrate the 200th birthday of the Brothers Grimm stories with this lavish volume now richly expanded for a new generation. Description for The Annotated Brothers Grimm (The Bicentennial Edition) Hardcover.

The Annotated Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm