I read the free edition available for Kindle. The five stars are in appreciation for the creation of the book and not particularly its content. It is best regarded as a work of anthropology. The same devices, evil stepmothers, stupid sons, and smart princesses, occur in many of the stories. T...
These classics are something that are a must read as in our modern times we have twisted or changed these beloved fairy tales and we don't truly know what they are like, you do get morals from them but they are very blunt (so would not suggest reading these to young children). But do not go in re...
"Picking up some fairy tales, huh?" said my friend Eli, the proprietor of my favorite bookstore, as I sidled up to the cash register."Yeah, I'm taking the kids camping, and they aren't quite old enough to read Poe to at the campfire. Proper fairy tales seem about right though, but I'm looking for...
'Cock-a-doodle-doo!Our dirty slut's come home again!'Thanks to the Grimm brothers who loved research and philology, they brought together the entire oral tradition of Germany and compiled it into written form.Tales of dwarves, elves, witches, and wolves. Some we're very familiar with. Did you kno...
Disney aint got nothin' on Grimm! Surprisingly dark and intriguing tales that are not always meant for children.
Loved them! Quick and clever and so much more gruesome than the retellings you hear today.
Nice to read something that has a bit more morbid twist. Am slowly reading through this, one story a day.
I was originally was going to give this a 3 because it is uneven strange, and sometimes surprisingly amoral, but then i realized how much I acutally had to say about it, and just how much I enjoyed reading these goofy stories. So bear with me while i recount some of the best and worst stories and...
It has been fascinating.At first the stories made absolutely no sense to me. There were no morals. They would have a slow start, a nonsense of a middle, and an abrupt and usually violent end. I thought to myself: These are not stories for children! But as I read on I realized that I have been rea...
Grimms' Fairy Tales is a charming new edition of one of the best-known collections of children's stories of all times. Peter Carter brings a novelist's flair for narrative pace and vivid imagery to these familiar tales while remaining faithful to the spirit and tone of the original orally transmi...