Vintage books The Complete Fairy Tales Grimm Jacob & Wilhelm

The example by which many others have followed, the Brothers Grimm collected the stories of German folk lore in an act of romantic nationalism. They believed that the best way to preserve history was through linguistic traditions and that fairy tales were most representative of a place

Сказки были впервые опубликованы братьями Якобом и Вильгельмом Гримм в начале девятнадцатого века • Сборник "Сказки братьев Гримм" содержит сорок пять историй и включает в себя некоторые из самых известных, таких как "Шиповничек" (возможно, более известная как "Спящая красавица") и "Красная шапочка", а также некоторые менее известные сказки • Прекрасные принцы и принцессы, злые ведьмы и мачехи, великодушные короли и искатели удачи - истории о них собраны со всей Германии в рамках фольклорной традиции. Но какова бы ни была мораль истории, добро всегда торжествует над злом • Книга на английском языке • Originally entitled Children's and Household Tales, Grimm's Fairy • Tales were first published by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early nineteenth century

This beautiful hardback treasury brings together the best-loved tales of Brothers Grimm, with deluxe silver embossing and gilded page edges • Illustrated with Arthur Rackham's original artwork, this delightful collection contains 80 stories, including some of the best known, such as 'Briar-Rose' (perhaps better known as 'Sleeping Beauty'), and 'Little Red-Cap' ('Little Red Riding Hood'), as well as some lesser known tales, like 'The Bremen Town Musicians', 'The Goose-Girl' and 'King Thrushbeard'. Filled with of cunning witches, dragon hoards and goblins spinning straw into gold, these Germanic stories are some of the most recognized and best-loved fairy tales of all time • Also included • Hansel and Grethel • Cinderella • Rapunzel • Snow White • Rumpelstiltskin • With a silver embossed cover design, this edition makes a wonderful collectible for children and adults alike

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics • ‘The wolf thought to himself, “What a tender young creature! what a nice plump mouthful – she will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both.”’ • This collection of much-loved folk tales features such familiar characters as daring Little Red Riding Hood, crafty Rumpelstiltskin and the ill-fated infants Hansel and Gretel. They are as magical and fascinating today as when they were first told, despite – or because of – the underlying darkness at their heart • Collected in a single volume by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, and first published in 1812, these stories are known and loved by adults and children alike, and have grown to be an invaluable part of our collective imagination

From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of enchanting folk and fairy stories full of giants and dwarfs, witches and princesses, magical beasts and cunning children. From classics such as 'The Frog-Prince' and 'Hansel and Grettel' to the delights of 'Ashputtel' or 'Old Sultan', all hold a timeless magic which has enthralled children for centuries

Первоначально озаглавленные "Детские и бытовые сказки", сказки братьев Гримм были впервые опубликованы братьями Якобом и Вильгельмом Гриммами в начале девятнадцатого века • Сборник "Сказки братьев Гримм" содержит сорок пять историй и включает в себя как самые известные, такие как "Шиповниковая роза" (возможно, более известная как "Спящая красавица") и "Красная шапочка", так и менее известные сказки, такие как "Мышка, птичка и колбаса", "Железная печка" и "Заяц и ежик" • Прекрасных принцев и принцесс, злых ведьм и мачех, великодушных королей и искателей удачи предостаточно среди историй, собранных со всей Германии в рамках фольклорной традиции. Но какова бы ни была мораль этой истории, добро всегда торжествует над злом • Книга на английском языке

Эта подборка содержит 80 рассказов и включает в себя некоторые из самых известных, таких как "Шиповниковая роза" (возможно, более известная как "Спящая красавица") и "Красная шапочка" ("Красная шапочка для верховой езды"), а также некоторые менее известные сказки, такие как "Бременский городок". Музыканты", "Девушка-гусыня" и "Карточка короля дроздов" • Прекрасных принцев и принцесс, злых ведьм и мачех, великодушных королей и искателей удачи предостаточно среди историй, собранных со всей Германии в рамках фольклорной традиции. Но какова бы ни была мораль этой истории, добро всегда торжествует над злом • Также включены более 45 замечательных иллюстраций Артура Рэкхема, которые привносят новую жизнь в эти неподвластные времени сказки • Книга на английском языке

The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary • 'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man' W. H. Auden • This volume contains all of Kafka's shorter fiction, from fragments, parables and sketches to longer tales. Together they reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought. Some are well known, others are mere jottings, observations of daily life, given artistic form through Kafka's unique perception of the world

The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai's short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the author. From the icy suburbs of Canada to the overcrowded B&Bs of Cornwall, via the hill towns and cities of India, Anita Desai observes human behaviour unflinchingly but not unkindly, recognising our ordinariness and our strangeness, and capturing both with quiet precision

The complete novels of one of the greatest German writers of all time, collected together in one literary masterpiece • Kafka’s characters are victims of forces beyond their control, estranged and rootless citizens deceived by authoritarian power. Filled with claustrophobic description and existential profundity, Kafka has been compared to a literary Woody Allen • In The Trial Joseph K is relentlessly hunted for a crime that remains nameless • The Castle follows K in his ceaseless attempts to enter the castle and to belong somewhere • In Amerika Karl Rossmann also finds himself isolated and confused when he is 'packed off to America by his parents'. Here, ordinary immigrants are also strange, and 'America' is never quite as real as it seems

Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub • In 2012, Roddy Doyle showed us the world anew: through the back-and-forth of two Dublin pub-dwellers. They chewed the fat, set the world to rights, slagged each other unmercifully. And along the way, they chased the ebb and flow and stupidity of the year right to the bottom of their pints • Today, they're still at it - even over Zoom, if needs be. Collected for the first time, here is almost a decade's worth of elections and referendums, births and deaths, football, financial crashes, pandemics and the philosophical questions of life, as told through the wit and warmth of Roddy Doyle's comic genius • Includes: Two Pints, Two More Pints, Two for the Road - and, for the first time in print, Two Pints: The Play and The Zoom Pints

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense, the son of a shoemaker. His early life was wretched, but he was adopted by a patron and became a short-story writer, novelist and playwright, though he remains best-known for his magical fairy tales which were published between 1835 and 1872. For 150 years his stories have been delighting both adults and children. Packed with a light-hearted whimsy combined with a mature wisdom they are as entrancing as ever. Here are all of Andersen's 154 tales, and among the favourites are The Red Shoes, The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Tinder Box and of course The Ugly Duckling