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The Turnip Princess - And Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales (Paperback)
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The Turnip Princess - And Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales (Paperback)
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A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales - now for the first
time in English. With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales
- the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen
- becomes a quartet. In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schoenwerth
traversed the forests, lowlands, and mountains of northern Bavaria
to record fairy tales, gaining the admiration of even the Brothers
Grimm. Most of Schoenwerth's work was lost - until a few years ago,
when thirty boxes of manu scripts were uncovered in a German
municipal archive. Now, for the first time, Schoenwerth's lost
fairy tales are available in English. Violent, dark, and full of
action, and upending the relationship between damsels in distress
and their dragon-slaying heroes, these more than seventy stories
bring us closer than ever to the unadorned oral tradition in which
fairy tales are rooted, revolutionizing our understanding of a
hallowed genre. 'Schoenwerth's tales have a compositional
fierceness and energy rarely seen in stories gathered by the
Brothers Grimm or Charles Perrault' -The New Yorker 'Schoenwerth's
legacy counts as the most significant collection in the
German-speaking world in the nineteenth century' - Daniel Drascek,
University of Regensburg Franz Xanver von Schoenwerth (1810-1886)
was born in Bavaria and had a successful career in law and the
Bavarian royal court before devoting himself to researching the
customs of his homeland and preserving its fairy tales and
folklore. Maria Tatar chairs the program in folklore and mythology
at Harvard, and has edited and translated many collections of fairy
tales. Eeika Eichenseer is a historian and preservationist working
for the Bavarian government and the director of the Franz Xaver von
Schoenwerth Society.
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