The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales

Expanded Edition

By:

Maria Tatar

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Princeton Classics

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Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and Household Tales. This expanded edition includes a new preface and an appendix featuring translations of six tales with commentary by Maria Tatar. Through

Author Biography:

Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Her many books include Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood and Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany (both Princeton).

Release date Australia

January 22nd, 2019

Author

Maria Tatar

Series

Princeton Classics

Contributor

Preface by Maria Tatar

Pages

376

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

18 b/w illus.

ISBN-13

9780691182995

Product ID

33568211

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