Household Stories Classic Reprint Grimm Brothers 9780243313853 Books
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Excerpt from Household Stories
In this translation of these Household Stories, it has been simply endeavoured to render the homely talk of Germany into the homely talk of our own country. A few short pieces have been omitted to which English mothers might object, and principally on the score of that mixture of the sacred and profane which is common in German imagina tive composition. It may, perhaps, also be objected that in some of the Tales the expression, the greater the rogue, the better his fortune, occurs to such criticism the Brothers Grimm reply, The right use of these narrations will find no. Evil therein, but, as a good old proverb has it, a witness of our own hearts. Children point at the stars without fear, while others, as the popular belief goes, thereby ofi'end the angels.
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Household Stories Classic Reprint Grimm Brothers 9780243313853 Books
One of the best parts of this book *should* be the wonderful Walter Crane illustrations, for which he is justly famous. Pretty much every one of them is frame-worthy. But *do*not*buy* the version reprinted by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. :(Unfortunately (and inexcusably) Amazon lumps all its reviews for the various reprints of a particular book together. Which means that the various reviews describing how wonderful the illustrations are in this book *absolutely*do*not*apply* to the reprint published by CreateSpace. You will be deceived if you believe otherwise.
I cannot begin to describe what a miserable job this outfit did on its reprint. The stats sound great, including the large (11x8.5 inch) format which should have been perfect for showing the artwork to best advantage. And this was one of the more expensive reprints at $17.09. But wow, what a disappointment. A few of the first pages do have almost full-page reproductions of the Crane illustrations (as they would have been originally), but even those are grainy and of very poor quality.
After those few illustrations, it gets farcical. Each of Crane's illustrations is mostly included (I think). However, all but the first few pages are reduced to about 1x3/8 inch very low resolution thumbnail type images. That's right, each picture is about the size of a *postage*stamp* that has been *cut*in*half*!!! To add insult to injury, many are horizontally or vertically compressed to fit the same small thumbnail format!!! They couldn't have made the pictures less useful if they had tried.
I have no idea if the text is all there - the book was so egregiously substandard that there was no chance on earth anyone would ever want to keep it, so I didn't check. The text is crisply legible (like it just came out of the laser printer), but has zero formatting. And I mean *zero* - the table of contents is inconsistently spaced (with some story titles underlined and some not), text is unjustified and goes right to the edge of the pages, breaks between stories happen wherever they fall (even to the point that some of the thumbnail illustrations are actually cut in half!!), ornamental letters beginning each story are not only reduced to low res thumbnails but are not even placed with the text that they begin.
The only thing I can figure is that CreateSpace downloaded the text and images for free, dumped them into the most basic imaginable publishing software and hit 'print.'
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of books out there with simple formats, and they look fine. (Sometimes I frankly prefer books with simple formats so that the reader's imagination has full range to recreate the story as he goes along). Those kinds of books are *unbelievably*gorgeous* compared to this travesty of digital publishing.
Words really do fail me to describe how bad this reprint is. I'm not talking amateurish, I'm talking literally dumped into a computer program (with zero formatting of its own) and printed.
Do not order this book.
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Household Stories Classic Reprint Grimm Brothers 9780243313853 Books Reviews
A useful collection of stories by the Brothers Grimm. It was interesting to read some of the less familiar stories, and to realise that some of the stories we read now are combinations of different ones.
The language is from the original translation, so might not always be easy to read for modern readers. But for insight into the origins of the folktale canon it is well worth reading.
I lost my copy of this book to water damage when it was misplaced in a backpack and left outside in the rain. I was pretty devastated as this is a family favorite. The black-and-white illustrations are unique, detailed, and magnificent. The stories are originals, preserved for future generations. As a homeschool mom, I appreciate that. I'm so glad I could order another copy of something I thought I'd lost for good. I hope they keep it in print or at least available for a long time to come. It's a literary and storytelling treasure.
I've heard most of these stories in one form or another, but I've never sat and read them in quantity. I'd like to read the full collection now, in addition to Anderson's collection.
The themes are hard to place. There doesn't always seem to be a particular moral message, and what there is doesn't necessarily find itself repeated from story to story. I shouldn't be surprised - these are stories by people, and people are inconsistent.
Some of the variations were nice, like Aschenputtel, but the greatest reward came from searching for themes. I found a few that I'd like to explore later - justice, resurrection, duty and obedience in women, and cunning and manipulation in men. There's a lot of grist for reflection, and in seeing how these themes, once popular, are still reflected in today's entertainment media.
I bought this ebook , because the stories were set as reading for an online course I am doing. I didn't think it is appropriate to give them a star rating - the same way you would probably not want to rate a Shakespeare play - whether you liked it or not - but will not let me publish the review without a rating.
The stories in this volume are like unadorned plot ideas which are intended for further development into real stories - like the versions of the stories that I first knew. In these original versions, characters are unidimensional - good, wicked, beautiful, ugly, kings/queens or paupers. No one has any introspection; they always act exactly according to their predefined character. The rabbit in the first story is a sexual dominator; when the straw "wife" defies his wishes, he abuses "her". The faithful servant can only act faithfully - even when the consequences are bad for him or his master. Emotions - love, hate, jealousy, loyalty - are primal, and also stem directly from the character. The actions are totally without nuance; people take instructions without question and go ahead and obey (or disobey) them in the next sentence; the king and the beautiful maiden always marry instantly, for no other reason than that she is beautiful and he is a king - it is what their characters demand.
The brothers Grimm were part of an 18th century movement that rejected the rationalism of Enlightenment Europe, in favor of a more mythic Germano-centric cultural ethos, based on idealized medieval folk memories. Their purpose was to advance a cultural concept , rather than to entertain, which is why the stories are so lacking in "frills", and deal with archetypes, rather than real people or realistic scenarios (even fantasy can be realistic). The tales invariably take place in dark (Teutonic) forests or otherwise bucolic settings, and are peopled by beautiful golden-haired good people and ugly dark bad people. Although this was the same intellectual environment from which the Nazis took much inspiration in their glorification of the Aryan race and vilification of all others, these stories are not racist. They were a product of their time certainly, but what they did was to popularize some folk tales, based on archetypal characters and situations, which many subsequent authors have turned into memorable tales.
One of the best parts of this book *should* be the wonderful Walter Crane illustrations, for which he is justly famous. Pretty much every one of them is frame-worthy. But *do*not*buy* the version reprinted by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. (
Unfortunately (and inexcusably) lumps all its reviews for the various reprints of a particular book together. Which means that the various reviews describing how wonderful the illustrations are in this book *absolutely*do*not*apply* to the reprint published by CreateSpace. You will be deceived if you believe otherwise.
I cannot begin to describe what a miserable job this outfit did on its reprint. The stats sound great, including the large (11x8.5 inch) format which should have been perfect for showing the artwork to best advantage. And this was one of the more expensive reprints at $17.09. But wow, what a disappointment. A few of the first pages do have almost full-page reproductions of the Crane illustrations (as they would have been originally), but even those are grainy and of very poor quality.
After those few illustrations, it gets farcical. Each of Crane's illustrations is mostly included (I think). However, all but the first few pages are reduced to about 1x3/8 inch very low resolution thumbnail type images. That's right, each picture is about the size of a *postage*stamp* that has been *cut*in*half*!!! To add insult to injury, many are horizontally or vertically compressed to fit the same small thumbnail format!!! They couldn't have made the pictures less useful if they had tried.
I have no idea if the text is all there - the book was so egregiously substandard that there was no chance on earth anyone would ever want to keep it, so I didn't check. The text is crisply legible (like it just came out of the laser printer), but has zero formatting. And I mean *zero* - the table of contents is inconsistently spaced (with some story titles underlined and some not), text is unjustified and goes right to the edge of the pages, breaks between stories happen wherever they fall (even to the point that some of the thumbnail illustrations are actually cut in half!!), ornamental letters beginning each story are not only reduced to low res thumbnails but are not even placed with the text that they begin.
The only thing I can figure is that CreateSpace downloaded the text and images for free, dumped them into the most basic imaginable publishing software and hit 'print.'
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of books out there with simple formats, and they look fine. (Sometimes I frankly prefer books with simple formats so that the reader's imagination has full range to recreate the story as he goes along). Those kinds of books are *unbelievably*gorgeous* compared to this travesty of digital publishing.
Words really do fail me to describe how bad this reprint is. I'm not talking amateurish, I'm talking literally dumped into a computer program (with zero formatting of its own) and printed.
Do not order this book.
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