Selected Tales (Brothers Grimm)

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780140444018
• ISBN10: 0140444017
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1983-02-24
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familiar, fantastic, homely, and frightening. They seem to belong to no time, or to some distant feudal age of fairytale imagining. Grand palaces, humble cottages, and the forest full of menace are their settings; and they are peopled by kings and princesses, witches and robbers, millers and golden birds, stepmothers and talking frogs.

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(36)
The Fisher an His Gweedwife	45	(8)
Rumplestiltskin	53	(3)
Hansel and Gretel	56	(7)
Little Redcape	63	(3)
Rapunzel	66	(4)
Briar-Rose	70	(4)
Snowwhite	74	(9)
The Jeniper Tree	83	(9)
Little Brother and Little Sister	92	(6)
The Three Little Men in the Forest	98	(6)
Mother Snowbed	104	(3)
The Three Birdies	107	(4)
The Twelve Brothers	111	(5)
The Seven Ravens	116	(3)
The Six Swans	119	(5)
The Two Brothers	124	(20)
The Master Huntsman	144	(6)
The Water of Life	150	(6)
The Golden Bird	156	(7)
The Dwarfie	163	(4)
Jack the Strong Man	167	(6)
The Six Who Went Far in the World	173	(5)
The Six Servants	178	(6)
The Sea-Rabbit	184	(3)
The Worn-Out Dancing-Shoes	187	(4)
The Devil's Three Golden Hairs	191	(7)
The Griffin	198	(7)
The Three Snake-Leaves	205	(4)
Faithful John	209	(8)
One-Eye, Two-Eyes and Three-Eyes	217	(8)
Ashiepattle	225	(7)
Manypelts	232	(5)
The Rightful Bride	237	(7)
The Iron Stove	244	(6)
The Twa Royal Bairnies	250	(7)
The Goosegirl	257	(6)
Jack of Iron	263	(8)
The Frog King, or Iron Harry	271	(4)
The Young Donkey	275	(3)
Jack My Hedgehog	278	(5)
The Magic Table, The Gold-Donkey, and the Cudgel in the Sack	283	(10)
The Knapsack, the Hat and the Horn	293	(6)
The Blue Lamp	299	(4)
The Salad-Donkey	303	(7)
The Three Brothers	310	(2)
The Four Skilful Brothers	312	(4)
The Young Giant	316	(7)
Thickasathumb	323	(6)
Bearskin	329	(5)
The Devil and His Grandmother	334	(3)
The King of the Golden Mountain	337	(6)
The Prince Afraid of Nothing	343	(5)
The Crystal Ball	348	(3)
Auld Rinkie	351	(2)
Jorinda and Joringle	353	(3)
The Nixie in the Pond	356	(6)
Fetcher's Fowl	362	(4)
The Robber Bridegroom	366	(4)
The Bremen Town Band	370	(4)
Clever Elsie	374	(4)
Lazy Harry	378	(3)
The Three Army-Surgeons	381	(3)
The Clever Little Tailor	384	(3)
Bumpkin	387	(5)
Owld Peadair	392	(5)
Notes	397	(20)
Glossary of Scots Words	417