Brothers Grimm Vol. I: English to German - Softcover

BROTHERS GRIMM VOL. I: English to German THIS EDITION: The dual-language text has been arranged into sub-paragraphs and paragraphs, for quick and easy cross-referencing. 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 (Dornröschen) Little Red-Cap (Rotkäppchen) Hansel and Grethel (Hänsel und Grethel) The Frog King (Der Froschkönig) The Bremen Town Musicians (Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten) Snow-White and Rose-Red (Schneeweißchen und Rosenroth) The Goose-Girl at the Well (Die Gänsehirtin 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

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.

Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) studied law in the early 1800s but became much better known as an accomplished and passionate storyteller and, with his brother Jacob, one of the Grimm Brothers, who gave the world the groundbreaking and fantastic collection of folklore, fairy stories, and fantasy tales we now call Grimm's Fairy Tales.