Grimms' Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Stories

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Apr 27, 2011 - Fiction - 656 pages
For readers of all ages, two hundred and ten tales of the Brothers Grimm, including "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White," and "Hansel and Gretel," translated by Ralph Manheim, the highly acclaimed and prize-winning translator. Manheim has rediscovered in the original German Grimms’ editions of the tales the unadorned, direct rhythm of the oral form in which they were first recorded. He has retained their ageless magic and mythology and restored the extraordinary vitality and wit, the acute perceptions of human strength and facility mirrored in the facets of these small gems.
 
“The best modern translation of the complete Brothers Grimm.”--Choice
 

Contents

The King of the Golden Mountain
321
The Raven
326
The Peasants Clever Daughter
330
Old Hildebrand
333
The Three Little Birds
336
The Water of Life
339
Dr Knowitall
344
The Spirit in the Bottle
346

The Twelve Brothers
34
A Pack of Nogoods
39
Little Brother and Little Sister
41
Rapunzel
46
The Three Little Men in the Woods
49
The Three Spinners
54
༤སྶསྶམསཝཱནཅུ ྡ ུS e ༤ རྣ ྂ གཽཞ ིིྲཀླི ླ ུ 15 Hansel and Gretel
56
The Three Snake Leaves
62
The White Snake
65
The Straw the Coal and the Bean
68
The Fisherman and His Wife 20
70
The Brave Little Tailor
77
Ashputtle Cinderella 22 The Riddle
90
The Mouse the Bird and the Sausage
92
Mother Holle
94
The Seven Ravens
96
Little Red
98
The Musicians of Bremen
102
The Singing Bone
104
The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs
106
The Louse and the Flea
112
The Girl Without Hands
113
Clever Hans
118
The Three Languages
120
Clever Else
123
The Tailor in Heaven
126
The Magic Table the Gold Donkey and the Cudgel in the Sack
128
Thumbling
136
Mrs Foxs Wedding
141
The Elves
143
The Robber Bridegroom
146
Mr Korbis
149
The Godfather
150
Frau Trude
151
Godfather Death
152
Thumblings Travels
155
The Odds and Ends
156
Fowlers Fowl
158
The Juniper Tree
162
Old Sultan
169
The Six Swans
171
Brier Rose The Sleeping Beauty
175
Fledgling
178
King Thrushbeard
180
Snow White
184
The Knapsack the Hat and the Horn
191
Rumpelstiltskin
196
Darling Roland
198
The Golden Bird
201
The Dog and the Sparrow
207
Frederick and LizaKate
210
The Two Brothers
215
Farmer Little
233
The Queen Bee
237
The Three Feathers
239
The Golden Goose
242
Thousandfurs
245
Bunny Rabbits Bride
249
The Twelve Huntsmen
251
The Thief and His Master
253
Jorinda and Joringel
255
Born Lucky
257
Six Who Made Their Way in the World
259
The Wolf and the Man
264
The Wolf and the Fox
265
The Fox and His Cousin
266
The Fox and the Cat
267
The Carnation
268
Clever Gretel
272
The Old Man and His Grandson
274
The Water Nixie
275
The Death of the Hen
276
Brother Scamp
277
Hans the Gambler
285
Hans in Luck
287
Hans Gets Married
291
The Golden Children
293
The Fox and the Geese
297
The Lilting Leaping Lark
301
The Goose Girl
306
The Young Giant
311
The Gnome
317
The Devils Grimy Brother
349
Bearskin
352
The Kinglet and the Bear
356
The Sweet Porridge
358
Wise Folk
359
Friendly Animals Three Tales
362
The Millers Drudge and the Cat
364
The Two Traveling Companions
367
Hans My Hedgehog
375
The Shroud
379
The Jew in the Brambles
380
The Hunter
384
The Flail from Heaven
388
The Prince and the Princess
389
The Clever Little Tailor
396
The Bright Sun Will Bring It to Light
398
The Blue Light
400
The Naughty Child
403
The Three Surgeons
404
The Seven Swabians
406
The Three Journeymen
409
The Prince Who Feared Nothing
412
The Donkey Lettuce
416
The Old Woman in the Forest
421
The Three Brothers
423
The Devil and His Grandmother
425
Faithful Ferdinand and Faithless Ferdinand
428
The Castiron Stove
432
The Lazy Spinner
437
The Four Artful Brothers
439
Oneeye Twoeyes and Threeeyes
442
The Fair Katrinelya and Pif Paf Poltree
449
The Fox and the Horse
450
The Shoes That Were Danced Through
452
The Six Servants
455
The White Bride and the Black Bride
461
Iron Hans
465
The Three Black Princesses
471
Knoist and His Three Sons
473
The Girl from Brakel
474
The Lamb and the Fish
475
Simeli Mountain
477
Traveling
479
The Donkey
480
The Ungrateful Son
483
The Fires of Youth
486
The Lords Animals and the Devils
487
The Beam
488
The Old Beggarwoman
489
The Three Lazy Sons 4 90
490
The Shepherd Boy
493
The Star Talers
494
The Stolen Pennies
495
Choosing a Bride
496
The Tale of Cockadoodle
499
The Wise Servant
506
Lazy Heinz
512
Hefty Hans
520
Skinny Lisa
526
Sharing Joys and Sorrows
532
The Moon
539
The Goose Girl at the Spring
547
Eves Unequal Children
555
The Gifts of the Little Folk
561
186
569
The Spindle the Shuttle and the Needle
577
The Master Thief
584
The Drummer
590
The Ear of Wheat
598
The Crystal Ball
604
Maid Maleen
606
The Buffalohide Boots
611
The Golden Key
614
Legends for Children 1 St Joseph in the Forest
615
The Twelve Apostles
618
The Rosebud
619
Gods Food
621
Marys Glass
624
The Heavenly Wedding
625
The Hazel Branch
626
Index
629
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Ralph Manheim was a highly acclaimed, prize-winning translator of major German and French works, including books by Hitler, Proust, Brecht, and Grass. Mr. Manheim won a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "genius" award in 1983. He also won honors from PEN, a National Book Award, a prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He died in 1992 at the age of 85.
 
The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), were German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together specialized in collecting and publishing folklore during the 19th century. They were among the best-known storytellers of folk tales, and popularized stories such as “Cindrella,” “Hansel and Gretel,” “Rapunzel,” “Sleeping Beauty,” and “Snow White.”

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