Reviews - Grimms Märchen. Gesamtausgabe

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Grimms Märchen. Gesamtausgabe

Jacob Grimm

4.08 AVERAGE

taxidermies's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous informative relaxing

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Loveable characters: Yes

ryion404's review against another edition

The stories are not very interesting. In general there is very little story and drama in the tales. More of a recounting of things that doesn't really make sense. The bar for entertainment was much different then.

purpleglow2015's review against another edition

*technically* I didn't read all of this one... but I read several of the fairy tales and will definitely continue to come back and read them as I read fairy tale retellings and mash-ups! This is such a beautiful edition of a thorough and amazing collection!!

breadandmushrooms's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

michaelmay's review against another edition

4.0

The stories are great. The inclusion of art from legendary illustrators is wonderful. The annotations and essays are illuminating.

I always have a tough time reading annotated editions that put the notes in the margins alongside the main story. I keep interrupting my own reading to see what the notes are. And Maria Tatar's intros to each story are especially hard since they're filled with spoilers. As a first time reader of many of these tales, I had to figure out a different way to read the book.

Eventually I decided that I'd enjoy it most if I skipped the intros and annotations until after I'd read the fairy tale, then go back and read Tatar's thoughts on them. That worked great, but it involved a lot of skipping around and flipping pages that I'd rather not have had to do.