The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition

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Summary: LOVED it!!
Review: The Grimm's fairy tales are so cool! I like this particular version because it's inexpensive, and I like the typeface used. But those two things aside, these fairy tales will endure forever. They're absolutely fascinating. If you like fairy tales, but have never read the ones the Grimm Brothers collected, now is the time :)

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Summary: :>
Review: These are actually quite hillarious! So many are quite random and seem to make no sense, and will provide hours of laughter for all you bored people out there.
Forget Disney--these are uncensored and not apologizing to anyone. And little kids will get used to them. It's not an especial problem to all you new-age "don't scare the children!" types. Besides...you can talk about them with the kids afterwards;)
Ah, German fairytales:>

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Summary: The student's dream edition
Review: This book not only comes with almost 300 stories, but a introduction that covers the Grimm brothers lives and their gathering of the stories. In the end it also has a very thick glossary that covers the credits of each story, most even say who the exact source the story came from. It's a literary masterpiece full of the Grimm's collected folklore and almost thirty new stories that I myself have searched for everywhere and couldn't find exept in this copy. Don't let the different names of a few of the stories through you though, every story had origanaly abuot five names and are referred to by anyone in different editions and company's prints. This is truely a grand buy for anyone who just wants to have a book with some illustrations and tons of stories for thier kids, or wants to reseach them. If this is for kids, I'm sure you know to be careful, some of the stories are very gruesome.

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Summary: Great Book For Adults- Discuss First before Giving to Child
Review: This is a superb collection of the Grimms Tales. It even includes various tales that have been left out over the years. The English translation makes this the best version of the stories.
However, please discuss some issues with kids if you give this book to them, such as story 110- The Jew in the Thornbush and various violent aspects of some tales.
Some more illustrations would have been nice as well, but all in all, as stated, a superb collection of the Tales.

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Summary: Great Book For Adults- Discuss First before Giving to Child
Review: This is a superb collection of the Grimms Tales. It even includes various tales that have been left out over the years. The English translation makes this the best version of the stories.
However, please discuss some issues with kids if you give this book to them, such as story 110- The Jew in the Thornbush and various violent aspects of some tales.
Some more illustrations would have been nice as well, but all in all, as stated, a superb collection of the Tales.

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Summary: Stories For Children?
Review: This is a very interesting collection of fairy tales. It has the popular forms and ones that I've never even herd about.
I found the omitted tales thrilling and very disturbing. It amuses me how scholars and historians say that fairy tales are damaging to children.
When modern day writting is much more sever.

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Summary: Grimm's tales as they should be read!
Review: True, some (but not all) of the Brothers Grimm stories are gruesome and parents would find it unesay reading them to their children as fairy stories, but then they were never intended to be read predominantly by, or to, children. The Brothers Grimm wrote down their collected oral tales mainly for the bourgeois audiences of 19th century europe, and Jacob Grimm said that whilst the stories were mainly for an adult readership, the fact that children were also beginning to read them was just a bonus. Certainly many of the tales are different to the sweet and innocent versions portrayed by Disney. Don't expect to find cute little animals here! However, expect to find tales with a moral and a recipe for living, as prevelent today as they were nearly 200 years ago. It's a great book, especially with the added bonus of Zipes' introduction which details the history of the Brothers Grimm and their reasons for writing down the tales. Buy it to read to yourself, not your children!

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Summary: Stupid Hans Saves The Day
Review: Unless you're Stupid Hans you're probably too clever to accomplish the task of getting the treasure, the kingdom, the woman or the point of these stories. With over 200 tales you must have the stamina to read these ofttimes repetitive tales with predictable kings and queens and dwarves and giants and castles. But don't let the repetition cast a spell over you and put you to sleep. Take each story one step at a time and don't worry whether you'll finish the daunting task before the evil witch comes to punish you. Do what your friends the animals tell you--listen to your feelings. Then you will come to see where the values lay in these bizarre and often grim tales. Then you too will understand that Stupid Hans isn't so stupid

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Summary: A timeless classic that is ageless.
Review: What I remember most about this book is the art on the front and back cover. It is but a glimpse of what lies in between the two. When I was a child I read this book from cover to cover. Now that I have grown I realize that the tales of the Brothers Grimm were a positive influence on my writing, art and dreaming skills. I have noticed that my art strives toward capturing some of the spell that these stories wove for me as a child. If you read no other book that captures your fantasies and brings you to an other worldly place, read this one. It keeps your dreams alive, and reawakens forgotten ones.

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Summary: Great translation, poor paper
Review: While I was impressed with Zipes translation I was incredibly disappointed with the quality of the paper. This is the "Library" binding, which is basically the paperback pasted into a laminated cardboard jacket too small for the volume. The paper itself is of the poorest grade recycled stuff, true pulp. Save yourself some money (and disappointment) and just get the paperback. I guess I'll keep looking for a volume I'm not ashamed to put on my bookshelf.