num_pages: 405
description: Two hundred years ago Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of Childrens and Household Tales. Now at a veritable fairy-tale momentwitness the popular television shows Grimm and Once Upon a Time and this years two movie adaptations of Snow WhitePhilip Pullman one of the most popular authors of our time makes us fall in love all over again with the immortal tales of the Brothers Grimm.From much-loved stories like Cinderella and Rumpelstiltskin Rapunzel and Hansel and Gretel to lesser-known treasures like Briar-Rose Thousandfurs and The Girl with No Hands Pullman retells his fifty favorites paying homage to the tales that inspired his unique creative visionand that continue to cast their spell on the Western imagination.
language: English
title: Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
publisher: Viking Adult