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Grimm's Grimmest (Hardcover)

by Jacob Grimm (Author), Wilhelm Grimm (Author) "A LONG TIME AGO there was a rich man who had a beautiful and pious wife ..." (more)

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Hardcover: 144 pages
Publisher: Chronicle Books; New edition edition (Jul 11 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0811850463
ISBN-13: 978-0811850469
Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 20.1 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 726 g

Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)

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A scholar of fairy tales, Maria Tatar, provides a fascinating introduction about the history and meaning of the stories assembled by the Brothers Grimm. She writes, for example, "We now know that the stories collected in the nineteenth-century folktale anthologies ...had their origins in an irreverent peasant culture that arose in conscious opposition to the feudal state's ruling class. By overdoing it in the realm of storytelling, these narrators were able to alleviate--if only temporarily--some of the tedium that marked the daily life of their audience ... [These tales] can be seen as the ancestors of our urban legends about vanishing hitchhikers and cats accidentally caught in the dryer or as the preliterate equivalents of tabloid tales describing headless bodies found in topless bars. But in many ways, it is the horror film to which the matter and manner of these folktales has most conspicuously migrated. Like horror films, folktales trade in the sensational--breaking taboos and enacting the forbidden with uninhibited energy."

The text of the 19 tales in this collection is based on the 1822 edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Nursery and Household Tales) by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm--before the tales were expurgated and rewritten to make them more "suitable" for children. It's bound in a handsome faux-antique format, and lavishly illustrated by Tracy Arah Dockray (15 full-page color paintings, and a black-and-white drawing on nearly every page). Most of the tales will be unfamiliar to American and English readers, who may be surprised by the graphic descriptions of incest, murder, mutilation, and cannibalism. Chronicle Books has done us a service in helping restore to our adult culture these vivid, evocative folktales. --Fiona Webster --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Grimm's Grimmest are not your typical bedtime stories. Drawing on the original German stories, this book presents 19 of the darkest and most dramatic tales collected by the Grimm Brothers. Some of these tales are recognizable, but contain elements that have long since been removed. From the true horror of Aschenputtel (the original Cinderella story) to Rapunzel's dark secret, here are the authentic stories born in the land of the Black Forest, at a time when fairy tales weren't necessarily for children, 14 long stories each open with a glorious colour oil painting commissioned especially for this book. Five shorter stories feature a black and white opening illustration. All stories are further illustrated with black and white spot art throughout.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Very Grimm Indeed, May 25 2004

By	Karen Woodworth Roman "www.librarians.info" (DeKalb, IL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Grimm's Grimmest (Paperback)

Maria Tatar introduces the stories and some of the variations in different editions. She also delves into the politics that have helped some stories become well known and helped keep others obscure. There is a table of contents, but the stories are in no discernable order.

This collection takes readers closer to the original tales and include incest, sex, and graphic violence. The stories are rough and sometimes hard to understand. For example, I could not understand why the daughter who had fled the castle and the incestuous advances of her father, the king, later purposefully let her identity be known to him.

These stories are excellent reading that should help tellers understand these folk tales better. They may be tellable as written to an adult audience. However, I feel that an audience that is not well-versed in the oral tradition my need some help in understanding them or putting them into context.

The illustrations have a lurid quality that intensifies the feeling of uneasiness.

Source Notes: Selected stories from the 3rd ed. (1822) of Kinder- und Hausm�rchen by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.

Reviewed by Karen Woodworth-Roman, MS Library Science

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4.0 out of 5 stars Wow, Feb 22 2004

By	Norliza Ismail "The Librarian" (Seria, Kuala Belait Brunei Darussalam) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Grimm's Grimmest (Paperback)

This book contains the collection of the Grimm's brothers original fairy tales, and mostly gruesome in nature, involving cannibal and gruesome acts. Fairy tales for adults and not for children's bedtime stories. It fills out the missing parts of the stories you read when you were a kid and fairytales genre lovers would denitely love to have their hands on this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful and fascinating read, Aug 31 2003

By	JoJo Lesher (Brighton, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grimm's Grimmest (Paperback)

I received this book as a Christmas present last year, and it has quickly become one of my all-time favorites. Okay, yes, the stories are pretty darn gory, with decapitations and/or mutilations playing a prominent role in quite a few of them, not to mention the incest and cannibalism and so forth, so you need to keep this book away from the kiddies. That aside, it's a wonderful and fascinating collection of tales. The illustrations are very nice, and there's a lot of them. Plus there's a great introduction at the beginning that gives the reader more of a background story on the Grimms and their work. Overall, a fantastic book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Grimmer than what I heard as a kid
Liked the illustrations to this volume of the darker tales, especially Juniper Tree, which was an amazing story that makes you realize just how awful the stepmothers of fairy... Read more

Published on May 20 2003 by Lynne Shaney

2.0 out of 5 stars Far from Horror Tales. 2 Stars **.
I grabbed this for free out of a bookclub: and that's about all I'd tell you to do and save your money. So why the two stars, instead of only one? Read more

Published on May 8 2003 by SpacegrassMan

4.0 out of 5 stars Bring in Vincent Price
These are original, bloody tales collected by the Brothers Grimm. Very few end with "they lived happily ever after" and even less beginning with "once upon a time". Read more

Published on Mar 2 2003 by D. K. Atkinson

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good
About the only fairy tale we will notice is the Cinderella story called Aschenputtal in this book. It is very different from the Cinderella we know. Read more

Published on Jan 28 2003 by x_opp