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Romantic Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics) Paperback – December 1, 2000

by Various (Author), Carol Tully (Editor)
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The four works collected in this volume reveal the fascinating preoccupations of the German Romantic movement, which revelled in the inexplicable, the uncanny and the unknown and, especially, the mysterious world of the fairy tale. Goethe's richly imaginative Fairy Tale (1795) depicts an ethereal underground realm and the marriage of a beautiful man and woman, whose union heralds a new age. In Tieck's Eckbert the Fair (1797) two outsiders seek refuge in the solitude of dark woods to conceal their incestuous passion from the world, while in Fouque's Undine (1811) a water nymph falls in love and acquires a soul, and so discovers the reality of human suffering. And Brentano's Tale of Honest Casper and Fair Annie (1817) portrays the tragedy of a young couple, destroyed by a false sense of honour and pride.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 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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  1. Print length
    192 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Penguin Classics
  4. Publication date
    December 1, 2000
  5. Grade level
    12 and up
  6. Reading age
    18 years and up
  7. Dimensions
    7.8 x 5.08 x 0.46 inches
  8. ISBN-10
    9780140447323
  9. ISBN-13
    978-0140447323
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Carol Tully was born in Galashiels, Scotland. After gaining a BA from the University of Strathclyde, she went on to take her PhD at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London. Before taking up her current post as lecturer in German at the University of Wales Bangor, she taught at King's College, London and the University of Leeds. As well as writing on nineteenth-century women's literature in Germany, Tully is the author of Creating a National Identity: A Comparative Study of German and Spanish Romanticism.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0140447326
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics edition (December 1, 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780140447323
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140447323
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 12 and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.8 x 5.08 x 0.46 inches
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Recently there's been a lot of fairy-tale hype happening. Turn on the TV and you'll see advertisements for Grimm and Once Upon a Time. The theater this year will have two, yes two movies centering on Snow White. We've had recent movies re-telling Beauty and the Best and Red Riding Hood and this fairy tale uprising, I believe, is just getting started.

I recently took a class that focused on uncanny literature from Continental European authors. These stories were included in the reading for that class and I will not sugarcoat this - some of them were strange, disturbing, and outright freaky. But that makes it all the more fun to read, right?

Between poor Casper and Annie and all this business about beheading to Eckbert and that business about the incest, these fairy tales are accessable - so much so I forgot I was reading for class at some points and just enjoyed reading fairy tales that I was very unfamiliar with.

So if you are a fan of Grimms Fairy Tales and want to experience a little more on the uncanny side, this is a volume of stories that will sit proudly on your shelf. It's a book of pure fun (and grossness).
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