Oliver Loo
ASIN: B00MMX1Z5W
Publisher: Oliver Loo; First edition (August 11, 2014)
Pages: 649
The Grimms Tales as you have never experienced them before – complete, accurate, and authentic - exactly as the Grimms wrote them 200 years ago. A completely new, cover-to-cover translation with extensive notes and commentary for the 200th anniversary translated in a new style that preserves the original texts in a way that has never been done before.The Tales were first published in 1812 and many times after that. Each time the stories were added to and expanded, or even completely changed or deleted by the Grimms themselves. In English translations, translators further changed, mistranslated, censored, added and/or removed text in their translations of the Tales and almost always rewrote the texts in a modern style so that they bear little resemblance to the original stories. Modern English translations are so far removed from the original 1812 stories as to possibly be called ...