Grimms' Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Stories
Ralph Manheim
Language: English
Pages: 656
ISBN: 0385189508
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Ralph Manheim, the highly acclaimed and prize-winning translator, has rediscovered in the original German editions of the Grimms' works the unadorned, direct rhythm of the oral form in which they were first recorded.
Awaken (Abandon Trilogy, Book 3)
La gran divergencia: Cómo y por qué llegaron a ser diferentes el Viejo Mundo y el Nuevo
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4)
you can talk!” She goes and takes his bridle off; the horse turns into a sparrow and flies out of the door. The wizard turns into a sparrow too and flies after him. They get together and play dice, the master loses, dives into the water and turns into a fish. The boy turns into a fish too, they play again, and the master loses. The master turns into a cock, the boy turns into a fox and bites the master’s head off. So he died, and he’s still dead. 69 Jorinda and Joringel THERE WAS ONCE an old
only four kreuzers left, he came to a tavern. “I might as well spend them,” he thought, and ordered three kreuzers’ worth of wine and one of bread. As he sat drinking, the smell of roast goose came to his nostrils. He looked around and finally saw two geese that the tavern keeper was keeping in the oven. Suddenly he remembered that his comrade had told him he could wish anything he pleased into his knapsack. “Hey!” he thought. “Let’s give it a try with the geese!” He went outside and said: “I
that! If anyone knows and tells him, half his body will be turned to stone, from his knees to his heart.” Then the third said: “I know still more. Even if the bridal robe is burned, the young king won’t keep his bride. After the wedding there will be a ball. While the young queen is dancing, she will suddenly turn pale and fall down as though dead. Unless someone lifts her up and sucks three drops of blood from her right breast and spits them out, she will die. But if someone knows it and tells,
here, and we wouldn’t have anything.” “Oh, no,” he said. “I wouldn’t do that.” So they gave him the boots. When he had all three, he thought of nothing but his wife and child, and muttered to himself: “Oh, if only I were on the Golden Mountain!” That instant he vanished from the giants’ sight, and they didn’t have to worry about their inheritance any more. As he approached the castle, he heard flutes and violins and cries of merriment, and the courtiers told him his wife was getting married to
Through THERE WAS ONCE a king who had twelve daughters, each more beautiful than the next. Their beds stood side by side, all in the same room, and after they went to bed the king locked and bolted the door. But in the morning when he opened the door, he saw that their shoes had been danced through, and no one was able to find out how this was possible. So the king made it known that anyone who found out where they went dancing could choose one of them for his wife and inherit the kingdom when
