Exploring Top Books of Shelfari

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

The classic edition of 210 ageless tales of myth and magic - one of the most popular collections of fairy tales ever published.

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm Volume I

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm Volume I

by Jack Zipes, Jack David Zipes

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm Perhaps no other stories possess as much power to enchant, delight, and surprise as those penned by the immortal Brothers Grimm. Now, in the new, expanded third edition, renowned scholar and folklorist Jack Zipes has translated all 250 tales collected and published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, plus twenty-nine rare tales omitted from the original German edition, as... (more)

Clever Maids: The Secret History of The Grimm Fairy Tales

Clever Maids: The Secret History of The Grimm Fairy Tales

by Valerie Paradiz?

Most people know the stories of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty , but very few know that behind the Brothers Grimm and their fairy tales stood a network of sisters -and mothers, neighbors, and female friends. In this intimate history, Valerie Paradiz tells the real story of the greatest literary collaboration of the nineteenth century, and gives the long-lost narrators of these beloved tales their due. Jacob... (more)

The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm

The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm

by Laura Amy Schlitz, Jacob Grimm

A dejected soldier makes a pact with the devil in this haunting, ultimately hopeful fairy tale, masterfully retold and vividly illustrated. Man or bear? When a person gives up hope, is he still human? Such is the story of a soldier who has lost everything to war: his childhood home, his family and friends, his youth, and his innocence. Enter that sly opportunist, the devil, who wraps the soldier in the armor of... (more)

Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion

by Jack Zipes, Jack David Zipes

The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives -- their behavior, values, and relationship to society. As Jack Zipes convincingly shows, fairy tales have... (more)

Fairy Tale As Myth Myth As Fairy Tale (The Thomas D. Clark Lectures : 1993)

Fairy Tale As Myth Myth As Fairy Tale (The Thomas D. Clark Lectures : 1993)

by Jack Zipes, Jack David Zipes

" Explores the historical rise of the literary fairy tale as genre in the late seventeenth century. In his examinations of key classical fairy tales, Zipes traces their unique metamorphoses in history with stunning discoveries that reveal their ideological relationship to domination and oppression. Tales such as Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and Rumplestiltskin have become part of our... (more)

Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales

Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales

by Jack Zipes, Jack David Zipes

Breaking the Magic Spell, first published in 1979, is considered a landmark of the field, and this revised, expanded, and updated edition will be invaluable to scholars and students. Folk and fairy tales pervade the everyday world to such a degree that we are sometimes unaware of their enormous influence on our behavior. In seven essays collected in Breaking the Magic Spell, Zipes discusses historically and... (more)

Annotated Brothers Grimm

by Jacob Grimm, Maria Tatar

Maria Tatar redefines the Grimm canon with this authoritative and entertaining collection. The Annotated Brothers Grimm celebrates the richness and dramatic power of the legendary fables in the most spectacular and unusual Grimm volume in decades. Containing forty stories in new translations by Maria Tatar—including "Little Red Riding Hood," "Cinderella," "Snow White," and "Rapunzel"—the book also features... (more)

Hansel and Gretel

by Jacob Grimm

When they are left in the woods by their parents, two children find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch.

Grimm's Grimmest

by Maria Tatar, Jacob Grimm

Murder, kidnapping, cruel and unusual punishment, violent revenge—these are not the bedtime stories mummy used to read. Newly reissued with a fresh cover, Grimm's Grimmest presents nineteen original, unsanitized, wholly unholy tales as they were first collected by the Brothers Grimm circa 1822—all fiendishly illustrated. The tales harken back to a time when travelers risked roasting or worse, and bad manners... (more)

From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

by Marina Warner

In this landmark study of the history and meaning of fairy tales, the celebrated cultural critic Marina Warner looks at storytelling in art and legend-from the prophesying enchantress who lures men to a false paradise, to jolly Mother Goose with her masqueraders in the real world. Why are storytellers so often women, and how does that affect the status of fairy tales? Are they a source of wisdom or a misleading... (more)

Selected Tales (Oxford World's Classics)

Selected Tales (Oxford World's Classics)

by Joyce Crick, Jacob Grimm

Sixty-five German folk-fairy tales with explanatory, introductory material, notes on each individual selection, and a glossary of Scots words.

The Complete Fairy Tales

by Grimm

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JACK ZIPES. Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of gold...the folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers created an astonishingly influential imaginative world. However, this is also a world where a woman serves her stepson up in a stew, a man marries a snake, a princess sleeps with a frog, and an evil queen dances to death in a pair of burning shoes.... (more)

The Twelve Dancing PrincessesJacob Grimm, Brothers Grimm

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

by Wilhelm Grimm, Dennis Hockerman, Suc?ie Stevenson, Jane Ray, Freya Littledale, Jacob Grimm, Diane Muldrow

A retelling of the tale of twelve princesses who dance secretly all night long and the poor soldier who follows them and discovers where they dance.

The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales

The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales

by Maria Tatar

Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales figures as the subject matter for this intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and Household Tales. This updated and expanded second edition includes a new preface and an appendix containing new translations of six tales, along with commentary by Maria Tatar. Throughout the book, Tatar skillfully employs... (more)

Little Red Riding Hood

by Brothers Grimm, Trina Schart Hyman

Today's young readers will truly be enchanted by this easy-to-read version of the Brothers Grimm classic illustrated with a fresh, vibrant new look set in an American frontier. Full-color illustrations.

Grimm's Fairy Tales

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Fairy Tale And Folklore

First published in Germany in 1812, these tales were collected by the two brothers Grimm from neighbouring villages and spinning rooms, and include "Hansel and Gretel", "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "Rumpelstiltskin". Arthur Rackham's illustrations were first published in 1900.

Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales

by The Brothers Grimm

Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Little Golden Book)adapted from Grimm's Fairy Tales

Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Little Golden Book)

by adapted from Grimm's Fairy Tales

The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World

The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World

by Jack Zipes, Jack David Zipes

Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, one of our surest guides through the world of fairy tales and their criticism, takes us behind the romantic mythology of the wandering brothers. Bringing to ber his own critical expertise as well as new biographical information, Zipes examines the interaction between the Grimms lives and their work. He reveals their... (more)

Shelfari Book Activity

Tags: brothers grimm

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

by Jack Zipes, Jack David Zipes

by Valerie Paradiz?

by Laura Amy Schlitz, Jacob Grimm

by Jack Zipes, Jack David Zipes

by Jack Zipes, Jack David Zipes

by Jack Zipes, Jack David Zipes

by Jacob Grimm, Maria Tatar

by Jacob Grimm

by Maria Tatar, Jacob Grimm

by Marina Warner

by Joyce Crick, Jacob Grimm

by Grimm

by Wilhelm Grimm, Dennis Hockerman, Suc?ie Stevenson, Jane Ray, Freya Littledale, Jacob Grimm, Diane Muldrow

by Maria Tatar

by Brothers Grimm, Trina Schart Hyman

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Fairy Tale And Folklore

by The Brothers Grimm

by adapted from Grimm's Fairy Tales

by Jack Zipes, Jack David Zipes