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Snow White and Other Tales (Hardcover)
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Snow White and Other Tales (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
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List price R473
Loot Price R390
Discovery Miles 3 900
You Save R83 (18%)
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'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 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.
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