Brothers Grimm Vol. I: Bruder Grimm Vol. I

Publisher Marketing: BROTHERS GRIMM VOL. I: German & English THIS EDITION: The dual-language text has been arranged into sub-paragraphs and paragraphs, for quick and easy cross-referencing. The story can be read in parallel text format (side by side), but can also be read only in English, or only in German. The original German text has been modernised and amended to suit this dual language project. The English text is in part a new translation from German. Essentially, the Brothers Grimm stories have been rewritten in contemporary English from the German text. The emphasis is on attaining a high correlation between each set of text fragments. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: This book contains a selection of eleven stories from Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's collection of German folk tales, originally published from 1812 -1815. The stories include: Cinderella (Aschenbuttel) Rapunzel (Rapunzel) Sleeping Beauty (Dornroschen) Little Red-Cap (Rotkappchen) Hansel and Grethel (Hansel und Grethel) The Frog King (Der Froschkonig) The Bremen Town Musicians (Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten) Snow-White and Rose-Red (Schneeweisschen und Rosenroth) The Goose-Girl at the Well (Die Gansehirtin am Brunnen) The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs (Der Teufel mit den Drei Goldenen Haaren) The Young Giant (Der Junge Riese) (A Dual-Language Book Project) 2Language Books" Contributor Bio:  Grimm, Jacob Ludwig Carl After studying at Marburg, Jacob became a clerk in the War Office at Kassel, and in 1808 librarian to Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia. In 1841 he received Professorship at Berlin, and in 1854 began work on Deutsches Worterbuch with his brother. Contributor Bio:  Grimm, Wilhelm Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) and his brother, Jacob, are most famous for their classical collections of folk songs and folktales, especially "Children's and Household Tales", which is generally known as "Grimm's Fairy Tales". Contributor Bio:  Hunt, Margaret Margaret Hunt (1831-1912) was a British novelist and translator of the tales of the Brothers Grimm. The Brothers Grimm (or Die Bruder Grimm), Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859), were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore. They are among the best-known storytellers of folk tales, popularizing stories such as "Cinderella" "(Aschenputtel)," "The Frog Prince" ("Der Froschkonig"), "Hansel and Gretel" ("Hansel und Gretel"), "Rapunzel," "Rumpelstiltskin" ("Rumpelstilzchen"), and "Snow White" ("Schneewittchen"). Their first collection of folk tales, Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmarchen), was published in 1812. The brothers spent their formative years in the German town of Hanau. Their father's death in 1796 (when Jacob was eleven and Wilhelm ten) caused great poverty for the family and affected the brothers for many years after. They both attended the University of Marburg where they developed a curiosity about German folklore, which grew into a lifelong dedication to collecting German folk tales. The rise of romanticism in the 19th century revived interest in traditional folk stories and to the brothers represented a pure form of national literature and culture. With the goal of researching a scholarly treatise on folk tales, they established a methodology for collecting and recording folk stories that became the basis for folklore studies. Between 1812 and 1857 their first collection was revised and republished many times, growing from 86 stories to more than 200. In addition to writing and modifying folk tales, the brothers wrote collections of well-respected German and Scandinavian mythologies and in 1838 began writing a definitive German dictionary (Deutsches Worterbuch), which they were unable to finish during their lifetime.