The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World

Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes, one of our surest guides through the world of fairy tales and their criticism, takes behind the romantics mythology of the wandering brothers. Bringing to bear his own critical expertise, as well as new biographical information, Zipes examines the interaction between the Grimms' lives and their work. He reveals the Grimms' personal struggle to overcome social prejudice and poverty, as well as their political efforts - as scholars and civil servant - toward unifying the German states. By deftly interweaving the social, political, and personal elements of the lives of the Brothers Grimm, Zipes rescues them from sentimental obscurity. No longer figures in fairy tale, the Brothers Grimm emerge as powerful creators, real men who established the fairy tale as one of our great literary institutions. Part biography, part critical assessment, part social history, the Brothers Grimm provides a complex and very real story about fairy tales and the modern world.

• The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition
• Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture
• The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition
• The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales: Expanded Second Edition
• The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition
• Jungian Dream Interpretation (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts) (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 13)
• Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales
• The Brothers Grimm: Two Lives, One Legacy
• Grimms` Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and Social Vision of the Tales
• The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre