The White Snake
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales
Fairy tales
Books-A-Millions
2012
Hardcover
977
For almost two centuries, the stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have been part of the way children—and adults—learn about the vagaries of the real world. Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow-White, Hänsel and Gretel, Little Red-Cap (a.k.a. Little Red Riding Hood), and Briar-Rose (a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty) are only a few of more than 200 enchanting characters included here. Lyrically translated and beautifully illustrated, the tales are presented just as Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm originally set them down: bold, primal, just frightening enough, and endlessly engaging.
WrensReads Review:
I have the complete set of the Grimm Fairy-Tales, and there are so many that I haven’t read! They are very short, as one would know, so I have decided to read each one and give them a review. Some are very vulgar, some are very cute and some don’t even make sense. Some of them are well known fairy-tales and some have never been told. Some are fairy-tales we know but are not the same because they have been downplayed for the children.
A servant eats part of a snake and can talk to animals. He saves his own life against the king, and then saves three different sets of animals on his travels.
He wants to marry a proud, beautiful princess and she gives him three impossible tasks to undergo. Will he succeed? Will he realize the princess isn’t worth it? Will someone help him do the impossible tasks?
This was an interesting story… kind of weird… but interesting.
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