The Orphanmaster
The Orphanmaster

Author: Jean Zimmerman

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2013-04-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 014312353X

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A love story wrapped around a murder mystery, set in seventeenth-century Manhattan In 1663 in the hardscrabble colony of New Amsterdam—today’s lower Manhattan—orphan children are going missing and residents suspect a serial killer. The list of possible culprits is long and strange. Among those looking into the mystery are a shrewd young Dutch woman, Blandine van Couvering, and a dashing Englishman, Edward Drummond, whose newfound romance is threatened by horrible accusations. In this spellbinding work of historical fiction, Jean Zimmerman relates the harsh realities of life in early Manhattan, re-creating the sights, smells, and textures of the rough settlement surrounded by wilderness and subject to political turmoil. Compulsively readable and filled with New York history, The Orphanmaster will delight fans of Caleb Carr, Hilary Mantel, and Geraldine Brooks.

Grimms' Tales for Young and Old
Grimms' Tales for Young and Old

Author: Brothers Grimm

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2011-04-27

Total Pages: 647

ISBN-13: 0307788067

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For readers of all ages, two hundred and ten tales of the Brothers Grimm, including "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White," and "Hansel and Gretel," translated by Ralph Manheim, the highly acclaimed and prize-winning translator. Manheim has rediscovered in the original German Grimms’ editions of the tales the unadorned, direct rhythm of the oral form in which they were first recorded. He has retained their ageless magic and mythology and restored the extraordinary vitality and wit, the acute perceptions of human strength and facility mirrored in the facets of these small gems. “The best modern translation of the complete Brothers Grimm.”--Choice

Stuff You Should Know
Stuff You Should Know

Author: Josh Clark

Publisher: Flatiron Books

Published: 2020-11-24

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1250268516

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From the duo behind the massively successful and award-winning podcast Stuff You Should Know comes an unexpected look at things you thought you knew. Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious—curious about the world around them, curious about what they might have missed in their formal educations, and curious to dig deeper on stuff they thought they understood. As it turns out, they aren't the only curious ones. They've since amassed a rabid fan base, making Stuff You Should Know one of the most popular podcasts in the world. Armed with their inquisitive natures and a passion for sharing, they uncover the weird, fascinating, delightful, or unexpected elements of a wide variety of topics. The pair have now taken their near-boundless "whys" and "hows" from your earbuds to the pages of a book for the first time—featuring a completely new array of subjects that they’ve long wondered about and wanted to explore. Each chapter is further embellished with snappy visual material to allow for rabbit-hole tangents and digressions—including charts, illustrations, sidebars, and footnotes. Follow along as the two dig into the underlying stories of everything from the origin of Murphy beds, to the history of facial hair, to the psychology of being lost. Have you ever wondered about the world around you, and wished to see the magic in everyday things? Come get curious with Stuff You Should Know. With Josh and Chuck as your guide, there’s something interesting about everything (...except maybe jackhammers).

Complete Fairy Tales
Complete Fairy Tales

Author: Jacob Grimm

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 790

ISBN-13: 1135142378

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The tale of 'Cinderella' is told wherever stories are still read aloud and everyone is familiar with 'Rapunzel' and 'The Golden Goose', but who has heard all the wonderful stories collected by the Brothers Grimm? Well, here's your chance, for within these covers you will find every one of their 210 tales, in all their enchantment and rapture, terror and wisdom, tragedy and beauty.

The Original 1812 Grimm Fairy Tales
The Original 1812 Grimm Fairy Tales

Author: Oliver Loo

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-09-19

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13: 9781503199699

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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. There are 34 stories in the original 1812 edition that never appear in any of the later editions. In the 1812 first edition of the tales, the Grimms also included an extensive 60 page appendix which discussed the oral and literary sources of the tales and often times one or more other versions of the stories. The 1812 appendix was never published in any English versions, so the 60 “new” stories and fragments found therein have been almost entirely unknown to English readers for last 200 years. The appendix is a lost “gem” and arguably as important as the stories themselves.

The Water of Life
The Water of Life

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13:

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A prince searching for the Water of Life to cure his dying father finds an enchanted castle, a lovely princess, and treachery from his older brothers.

Selected Tales
Selected Tales

Author: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2009-07-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780199555581

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This new translation offers a more representative selection of the Grimms' tales by including fables and morality tales as well as all the best known 'fairy' tales. It faithfully conveys the Grimms' own texts and provides a wealth of information about the origins of the stories, their literary evolution at the hands of the Grimms, with examples of earlier versions and stories that were omitted as being unsuitable for children.

The Annotated Brothers Grimm
The Annotated Brothers Grimm

Author: Jacob Grimm

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 9780393058482

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Containing 40 stories in new translations by Tatar this celebration of the richness and dramatic power of the legendary fables also features 150 illustrations, many of them in color, by legendary painters.

Grimm's Fairy Tales
Grimm's Fairy Tales

Author: Jacob Grimm

Publisher: Fall River Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781435166875

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The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm are among the bestloved and most famous in world literature. This volume features more than fortyof their best-known fairy tales, lavishly illustrated with line drawings andcolour plates by Artur Rackham.