The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales

The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics)

A rare discovery in the world of fairy talesâ€”now for the first time in English

Move over, Cinderella: Make way for the Turnip Princess! And for the â€œCinderfellasâ€ in these stories, which turn our understanding ofÂ gender inÂ fairy tales on its head.

With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy talesâ€”the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersenâ€”becomes a quartet.Â In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von SchÃ¶nwerth traversed the forests, lowlands, and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales, gaining the admiration of even the Brothers Grimm. Most of SchÃ¶nwerth's work was lostâ€”until a few years ago, when thirty boxes of manuÂscripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive. Now, for the first time, SchÃ¶nwerth'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 sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500Â titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theÂ series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-dateÂ translations by award-winning translators.

From the Trade Paperback edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Classics
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-02-24
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Classics
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-02-24
Format	Kindle eBook

The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics)

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