Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Paperback - 2013

Details

• Title Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
• Author Adapted by Philip Pullman
• Binding Paperback
• Edition DLX REP
• Pages 448
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Penguin Group, New York
• Date 2013-10-29
• Features Bibliography
• ISBN 9780143107293 / 0143107291
• Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
• Dimensions 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.3 in (21.08 x 14.22 x 3.30 cm)
• Ages 18 to UP years
• Grade levels 13 - UP
• Library of Congress subjects Fairy tales - Germany, FICTION / Fantasy / General
• Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013032537
• Dewey Decimal Code FIC

“Pullman’s Fairy Tales offers something unique: the chance to watch a master storyteller think through these most foundational of tales. . . . It is fascinating.” —The New York Times
 
“You didn’t know you needed to reread Grimm. You do. This is a grand and great book. . . . I read it ravenously, rapturously.” —Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation
 
“Zippy! . . . These tales are about plot and economy and speed [and] make great bedtime read-alouds for children who can handle a little gore. . . . The original tales weren’t for children, of course; they were for everyone. So is this book. . . . Pullman is both erudite and funny. . . . He has fun with dialogue, and is particularly snappy with dwarfs. . . . You know what? He crushes it, as the youth of today are wont to say. . . . His translations are perfection.” —The New York Times Book Review
 
“It is such a pleasure to read these tales again, to experience their strangeness and richness, their violence and beauty, their sheer nonsense. . . . Reading Pullman’s version it is impossible not to hear Pullman’s own gentle voice; he is present on every page. . . . [His] interventions work brilliantly.” —The Boston Globe
 
“These wonder tales . . . compel belief as powerfully as any adventure or thriller.” —Marina Warner, The Times Literary Supplement
 
“Excellent . . . His beginnings are like invitations that cannot be refused. . . . Pullman shows how completely he understands the Grimms. . . . [He] pays homage to the Brothers’ pioneer work and simultaneously breathes new life into a great, venerable tradition of magical storytelling.” —Jack Zipes, Los Angeles Review of Books
 
“A real pleasure to read . . . This is the kind of writing that stands up to years of bedtime repetition. . . . The author’s best appearances are in the notes, which are often as entertaining as the stories themselves. . . . Swiftness and clarity, he says, were his guiding principles; to which he has added wit and invention. . . . Beautiful or grotesque, the mad poetry of these tales is often delightfully funny too.” —The Economist