The Annotated Brothers Grimm
Grim, Jacob; Grim, Wilhelm; Tatar, Maria (Ed); Byatt, A. S.
From Gargoyle Books, IOBA, La Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since December 6, 2001
From Gargoyle Books, IOBA, La Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since December 6, 2001
About this Item
Oversized hardcover( in 459 pages) containing 46 tales with annotations (explanatory notes in margins) that really bring the stories to life & increase your understanding of them! Includes beloved children's favorites, along with a good selection of tales written for adults; an essay on the origins & cultural effects of the tales; a biographical essay on the Brothers Grimm; the original prefaces to the first & second editions of the tales; a section of lovely quotes from famous writers on "The Magic of Fairy Tales;" & an Introduction by author A.S. Byatt. Translated, edited, & annotated by Maria Tatar. Beautiful woodcut & full color illustrations throughout by original illustrators Kay Nielsen, Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane, George Cruikshank, & more. A FIRST EDITION, Second Printing from 2004, this book is beautiful, but downgraded to Near Fine because it is an Ex-Lib copy marred by the usual stamps & markings to front matter & bottom/top outside page edges. Otherwise, it appears nearly new & never read! Pages completely white & unmarked, illustrations bright & colorful, binding straight & strong. The unclipped DJ is Fine, as it has been protected under library mylar since new: colorful & bright. DJ is taped to inside covers, so we can't show you the front of the book itself under the DJ. Our photos depict the EXACT book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays, Pacific time; later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day. SORRY: book is too large for expedited domestic or any international shipping without increased postage costs (at least double, per USPS). Seller Inventory # 018564
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Annotated Brothers Grimm
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition, 2nd Printing
About this title
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 150 illustrations, many of them in color, by legendary painters such as George Cruikshank and Arthur Rackham; hundreds of annotations that explore the historical origins, cultural complexities, and psychological effects of these tales; and a biographical essay on the lives of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Perhaps most noteworthy is Tatar's decision to include tales that were previously excised, including a few bawdy stories and others that were removed after the Grimms learned that parents were reading the book to their children―stories about cannibalism in times of famine and stories in which children die at the end. Enchanting and magical, The Annotated Brothers Grimm will cast its spell on children and adults alike for decades to come. 75 color and 75 black-and-white illustrationsJacob Grimm (1785-1863) is the author, along with his brother Wilhelm, of the classic tales of folklore and fantasy collectively known as Grimm's Fairy Tales. Also a librarian and dictionary writer, Jacob was an acclaimed linguist and academic who elaborated "Grimm's Law," a major historical breakthrough in the development of the study of linguistics.
Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) studied law in the early 1800s but became much better known as an accomplished and passionate storyteller and, with his brother Jacob, one of the Grimm Brothers, who gave the world the groundbreaking and fantastic collection of folklore, fairy stories, and fantasy tales we now call Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Maria Tatar chairs the Program in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University. She is the author of Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood, Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood and many other books on folklore and fairy stories. She is also the editor and translator of The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, The Annotated Brothers Grimm, The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales, The Annotated Peter Pan, The Classic Fairy Tales: A Norton Critical Edition and The Grimm Reader. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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