Snow White and Other Tales

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Joyce Crick

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English

Worlds Classics
09 May 2019

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Children's literature studies: general; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fiction in translation; Traditional stories (Children's&YA)

Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection

'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.

By: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Edited and translated by: Joyce Crick
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 223mm, Width: 142mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 536g
ISBN: 9780198833840
ISBN 10: 0198833849
Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 09 May 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joyce Crick taught German at University College London until her retirement. She has written on Kafka's first English translators, Willa and Edwin Muir, and for OWC she has translated The Metamorphosis and Other Stories and A Hunger Artist and Other Stories by Kafka, and Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, winner of the Shlegel-Tieck Prize in 2000.

Reviews for Snow White and Other Tales

"""The book that afforded me deepest pleasure is 'Selected Tales' by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (trans Joyce Crick). What a joy to meet Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel and Ashypet again in these sparkling new versions."" - Paul Bailey, The Independent""terrific new edition...forcefully translated and brilliantly analysed, by Joyce Crick."" - The Independent""Joyce Crick, a fine scholar of German literature, has set out here to rescue Grimm's Tales both from children and folklorists and to help us see it as a major work of literature... she has done a magnificent job, and both she and OUP are to be congratulated."" - TLS"