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The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales
Narrator: Heather Wilds
Unabridged: 7 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Published: 06/16/2015
Category: Social Science
Synopsis
In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schonwerth traversed the forests, lowlands, and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales, gaining the admiration of even the Brothers Grimm. Most of Schonwerth's work was lost—until a few years ago, when thirty boxes of manuscripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive. Now, for the first time, Schonwerth's lost fairy tales are available in English. Violent, dark, and full of action, and upending the relationship between damsels in distress and their dragon-slaying heroes, these more than seventy stories bring us closer than ever to the unadorned oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted, revolutionizing our understanding of a hallowed genre."The tales are vigorous, direct, and less artful then those of the Grimms, suggesting greater authenticity, closer to the source." ---Library Journal