Schonwerth Franz Xaver Von
Schonwerth Franz Xaver Von - The Turnip Princess And Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales - Paperback
Schonwerth Franz Xaver Von - The Turnip Princess And Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales - Paperback
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Description: A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales - now for the first time in English. With this volume the holy trinity of fairy tales - the Brothers Grimm Charles Perrault and Hans Christian Andersen - becomes a quartet. In the 1850s Franz Xaver von Sch nwerth traversed the forests lowlands and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales gaining the admiration of even the Brothers Grimm. Most of Sch nwerth's work was lost - until a few years ago when thirty boxes of manu scripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive. Now for the first time Sch nwerth's lost fairy tales are available in English. Violent dark and full of action and upending the relationship between damsels in distress and their dragon - slaying heroes these more than seventy stories bring us closer than ever to the unadorned oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted revolutionizing our understanding of a hallowed genre. Sch nwerth's tales have a compositional fierceness and energy rarely seen in stories gathered by the Brothers Grimm or Charles Perrault - The New Yorker Sch nwerth's legacy counts as the most significant collection in the German - speaking world in the nineteenth century - Daniel Drascek University of Regensburg Franz Xanver von Sch nwerth (1810 - 1886) was born in Bavaria and had a successful career in lawand the Bavarian royal court before devoting himself to researching the customs of his homeland and preserving its fairy tales and folklore. Maria Tatar chairs the program in folklore and mythology at Harvard and has edited and translated many collections of fairy tales. Eeika Eichenseer is a historian and preservationist working for the Bavarian government and the director of the Franz Xaver von Sch nwerth Society.
Title: The Turnip Princess And Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales
Author(s): Schonwerth Franz Xaver Von, Erika Eichenseer
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780143107422
Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/24/2015
Category: Classic Fiction
Description: A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales - now for the first time in English. With this volume the holy trinity of fairy tales - the Brothers Grimm Charles Perrault and Hans Christian Andersen - becomes a quartet. In the 1850s Franz Xaver von Sch nwerth traversed the forests lowlands and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales gaining the admiration of even the Brothers Grimm. Most of Sch nwerth's work was lost - until a few years ago when thirty boxes of manu scripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive. Now for the first time Sch nwerth's lost fairy tales are available in English. Violent dark and full of action and upending the relationship between damsels in distress and their dragon - slaying heroes these more than seventy stories bring us closer than ever to the unadorned oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted revolutionizing our understanding of a hallowed genre. Sch nwerth's tales have a compositional fierceness and energy rarely seen in stories gathered by the Brothers Grimm or Charles Perrault - The New Yorker Sch nwerth's legacy counts as the most significant collection in the German - speaking world in the nineteenth century - Daniel Drascek University of Regensburg Franz Xanver von Sch nwerth (1810 - 1886) was born in Bavaria and had a successful career in lawand the Bavarian royal court before devoting himself to researching the customs of his homeland and preserving its fairy tales and folklore. Maria Tatar chairs the program in folklore and mythology at Harvard and has edited and translated many collections of fairy tales. Eeika Eichenseer is a historian and preservationist working for the Bavarian government and the director of the Franz Xaver von Sch nwerth Society.
Title: The Turnip Princess And Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales
Author(s): Schonwerth Franz Xaver Von, Erika Eichenseer
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780143107422
Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/24/2015
Category: Classic Fiction
