The Turnip Princess

Author : Franz Xaver von Schonwerth
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0143107429
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales written by Franz Xaver von Schonwerth and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales—now for the first time in English Move over, Cinderella: Make way for the Turnip Princess! And for the “Cinderfellas” in these stories, which turn our understanding of gender in fairy tales on its head. With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales—the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen—becomes a quartet. In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traversed the forests, lowlands, and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales, gaining the admiration of even the Brothers Grimm. Most of Schönwerth's work was lost—until a few years ago, when thirty boxes of manu­scripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive. Now, for the first time, Schönwerth's lost fairy tales are available in English. Violent, dark, and full of action, and upending the relationship between damsels in distress and their dragon-slaying heroes, these more than seventy stories bring us closer than ever to the unadorned oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted, revolutionizing our understanding of a hallowed genre. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Franz Xaver von Schonwerth
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143107429
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales written by Franz Xaver von Schonwerth and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales—now for the first time in English Move over, Cinderella: Make way for the Turnip Princess! And for the “Cinderfellas” in these stories, which turn our understanding of gender in fairy tales on its head. With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales—the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen—becomes a quartet. In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traversed the forests, lowlands, and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales, gaining the admiration of even the Brothers Grimm. Most of Schönwerth's work was lost—until a few years ago, when thirty boxes of manu­scripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive. Now, for the first time, Schönwerth's lost fairy tales are available in English. Violent, dark, and full of action, and upending the relationship between damsels in distress and their dragon-slaying heroes, these more than seventy stories bring us closer than ever to the unadorned oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted, revolutionizing our understanding of a hallowed genre. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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ISBN 13 : 9781544403137
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Franz von Schönwerth
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048631670X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Original Bavarian Folktales: A Schönwerth Selection written by Franz von Schönwerth and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 150 fairy and folk tales from a three-volume scholarly work of the 1850s. Includes Introduction to the German and East Bavarian stories. Tales of giants, witches, death, other subjects grouped thematically.

Author : Jan Brett
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0399170707
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Turnip written by Jan Brett and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Badger Girl's delighted to find the biggest turnip she's ever seen growing in her vegetable garden, but when the time comes to harvest the giant root, she's unable to pull it up without help from family and friends.

Author : Jan Fearnley
Publisher : Egmont Books
ISBN 13 : 9781405234368
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr Wolf and the Enormous Turnip written by Jan Fearnley and published by Egmont Books. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Mr. Wolf tries to get a very large turnip out of the ground, a frog asks for the wolf's help in finding a princess to kiss him and break a witch's spell, but when they are successful the frog turns into a very different type of prince.

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Publisher : Puffin
ISBN 13 : 9780140380828
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Turnip written by and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of an old man's turnips grows to such an enormous size that he needs the help of his wife, a little girl, a dog, a cat, and a mouse to pull it up.

Author : Franz Xaver von Schonwerth
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0345812182
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White as Milk, Red as Blood written by Franz Xaver von Schonwerth and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This striking, richly illustrated edition of long-lost German fairy tales is not a book for children. It is a book for adults. Or for adults to frighten children into behaving...whichever you prefer. In 2009, a trove of lost fairy tales collected by Franz Xaver von Schönwerth--a 19th-century collector of Bavarian folk tales and contemporary of the Brothers Grimm--was unearthed in a municipal archive in Germany. Unlike the Grimms, who polished the stories they collected, adapting to contemporary tastes, von Schönwerth recorded the stories as they were told, plucking them directly from the living, breathing tree of oral storytelling, retaining their darker themes and sometimes shocking violence. Von Schönwerth published a single volume of these tales in his lifetime, but the vast majority languished and were forgotten over the years, effectively frozen in time until their recent rediscovery. Now, award-winning illustrator Willow Dawson, in collaboration with translator Shelley Tanaka, has brought these long-lost tales unforgettably to life, illuminating with striking woodcut-style illustrations a spectacular collection that will change the way you look at fairy tales forever. Paired with Dawson's arresting artwork, the stories in White as Milk, Red as Blood race with palpable energy through fantasy landscapes darker, bawdier and racier than anything we find in Disney or the Grimms. Following the tradition of illustrated fairy-tale collections, White as Milk, Red as Blood is the very first fully illustrated, full-colour edition of Franz Xaver von Schönwerth's work. It is a timeless tome of enchantment and foreboding: tales--as haunting as they are profound--of powerful princesses, helpless men, lecherous villains, virtuous girls, witches, giants, at least one female serial killer, mer-people, shape-shifters and talking beasts--a kaleidoscope of wonders both familiar and entirely new; rich and strange. Dawson and Tanaka's dark and lively take on von Schönwerth's collected tales will appeal to fans of Mike Mignola's classic fantasy comic-book series Hellboy.

Author : Katie Daynes
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1409568768
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enormous Turnip written by Katie Daynes and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the farmer can't pick a turnip out of the ground, he enlists his entire family to help him. But just how big can a turnip grow?! Simply written in lively, flowing text Usborne First Reading books are designed to capture the imagination and build the confidence of beginner readers. This book includes audio and links to downloadable worksheets and teacher's notes. "Irresistible for children learning to read. " - Child Education Plus

Author : Martin Hallett
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1460407075
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folk and Fairy Tales - Fifth Edition written by Martin Hallett and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling anthology of folk and fairy tales brings together 54 stories, 9 critical articles, and 24 color illustrations from a range of historical and geographic traditions. Sections group tales together by theme or juxtapose variations of individual tales, inviting comparison and analysis across cultures and genres. Accessible critical selections provide a foundation for readers to analyze, debate, and interpret the tales for themselves. An expanded introduction by the editors looks at the history of folk and fairy tales and distinguishes between the genres, while revised introductions to individual sections provide more detailed history of particular tellers and tales, paying increased attention to the background and cultural origin of each tale. This new edition includes a larger selection of critical articles (including pieces by J.R.R. Tolkien and Marina Warner), more modern and cross-cultural variations on classic tales (including stories by Neil Gaiman and Emma Donoghue), and an expanded selection of color illustrations.