Synopses & Reviews
"A milestone, a tour de force, a joy to see...27 stories from the Grimm brothers' collection [including] some familiar tales and others that are less well known. The translations...are direct and fresh, unexpurgated and unsweetened. The illustrations are superb; beautiful, imaginative, appropriate, tender and terrible-as though the tales had been waiting for Maurice Sendak to interpret them. For children and adults."-Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Translated by Lore Segal with four tales translated by Randall Jarrell. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak
"Many Fur" is translated from the text in the first edition of Kinder- und Hansmarchen (1812, 1815), which is more coherent than the versions in the later editions. The other tales are translated from lalter texts, as reworked by the Brothers Grimm.
Randall Jarrell's translations of "Fisherman and His Wife,"Hansel and Gretel," The Golden Bird and Other Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Macmillian, 1962), are reprinted here.
Synopsis
"A milestone, a tour de force, a joy to see...27 stories from the Grimm brothers' collection [including] some familiar tales and others that are less well known. The translations...are direct and fresh, unexpurgated and unsweetened. The illustrations are superb; beautiful, imaginative, appropriate, tender and terrible-as though the tales had been waiting for Maurice Sendak to interpret them. For children and adults."-Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Translated by Lore Segal with four tales translated by Randall Jarrell. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak
"Many Fur" is translated from the text in the first edition of Kinder- und Hansmarchen (1812, 1815), which is more coherent than the versions in the later editions. The other tales are translated from lalter texts, as reworked by the Brothers Grimm.
Randall Jarrell's translations of "Fisherman and His Wife,"Hansel and Gretel," The Golden Bird and Other Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (Macmillian, 1962), are reprinted here.
Table of Contents
Volume I
The Three Feathers
Hans My Hedgehog
The Story of One Who Set Out to Study Fear
Brother and Sister
Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle
The Twelve Huntsmen
Fitcher's Feathered Bird
The Devil and His Three Golden Hairs
The Fisherman and His Wife
The Master Thief
Brother Gaily
The Goblins
Hansel and Gretel
Volume II
The Frog King, or Iron Henry
The Poor Miller's Boy and the Little Cat
Fredrickand His Katelizabeth
The Golden Bird
Bearskin
Godfather Death
Many-fur
Rapunzel
Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs
Rabbit's Bride
The Two Journeyman
Ferndinand Faithful and Ferndinand Unfaithful
Mrs. Gertrude
The Juniper Tree