Snowdrop and Other Tales

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Arthur Rackham (Illustrator)

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Genres: Classics, Fantasy, Short Stories, Fiction, Fairy Tales

133 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 11, 2011

About the author

German philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm in 1822 formulated Grimm's Law, the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-1859), he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812-1815).

Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European p shifted to Germanic f, t shifted to th, and k shifted to h. Indo-European b shifted to Germanic p, d shifted to t, and g shifted to k. Indo-European bh shifted to Germanic b, dh shifted to d, and gh shifted to g.

This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental German Dictionary and his Deutsche Mythologie .

Adapted from Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Marquise · Rating 5 out of 5]

The ones by Rackham and those by Trina Schart-Hyman's illustrations for Snow White are the best in the old storybookish style that I love. Others I loved are the drawings for "Sleeping Beauty" and "The Goose Girl."

[Susan Molloy · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Entertaining Collection.

Overall, this was an entertaining and enjoyable collection of short Grimm Brothers fairy tales. Most are excellent; only a few miss the mark. No illustrations in the Kindle version, though.

[Nina · Rating 2 out of 5]

Kumpulan dongeng ini jalan ceritanya berbeda dari yang selama ini saya tahu, tokoh-tokohnya pun punya nama lain. Chapter pertama cerita Snowdrop (namanya bukan Snow White), kemudian disusul dongeng dari tokoh lain. Cinderella namanya Ashenputten (maaf kalau saya keliru. Namanya tidak familiar sih).

Belum-belum saya sudah kesal dengan Snowdrop. Masa nih cewek bodoh banget. Diperingatkan oleh para kurcaci supaya tidak bukain pintu buat orang asing, eh masih aja bukain pintu buat si Queen alias ibu tiri jahat yang nyamar jadi wanita tua. Begitu sampe tiga kali. Bodohnya lagi, kok ya mau-maunya rambutnya disisir orang asing (iya racun buat membunuh Snowdrop juga lewat sisir, tidak hanya lewat apel), lehernya diiketin pita (dan akhirnya dicekik samoe Snowdrop mati suri).

Kalau ingin baca dongeng yang tidak biasa, buku ini boleh dijadikan pilihan. Bahasa Inggrisnya juga enggak sulit.

[Jinx:The:Poet {the LiteraryWanderer & WordRoamer} · Rating 4 out of 5]

SNOWDROP: Snowdrop, or more commonly known today as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It begins with a mother wishing that her daughter would be beautiful, and so so she was. But when the mother died and the father remarried, the evil step mother is very vain and despises her lovely step daughter Snowdrop. It was a good story, one with memorable characters. MORAL: Don’t be vain or jealous. Kindness is more beautiful than physical beauty. [RATING: 4.5 STARS]

[ZEBOOK MEXICO · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good book.
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