{"product_id":"9780143107422-the-turnip-princess","title":"The Turnip Princess","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales\u003cbr\u003eA volume, in which, the holy trinity of fairy tales - the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen - becomes a quartet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rare discovery in the world of fairy tales - now for the first time in English.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales - the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen - becomes a quartet. In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traversed the forests, lowlands, and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales, gaining the admiration of even the Brothers Grimm. Most of Schönwerth's work was lost - until a few years ago, when thirty boxes of manu­scripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Now, for the first time, Schönwerth'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Schönwerth's tales have a compositional fierceness and energy rarely seen in stories gathered by the Brothers Grimm or Charles Perrault'  -\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Schönwerth's legacy counts as the most significant collection in the German-speaking world in the nineteenth century' - \u003cb\u003eDaniel Drascek, University of Regensburg\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFranz Xanver von Schönwerth (1810-1886) was born in Bavaria and had a successful career in law\u003cbr\u003eand the Bavarian royal court before devoting himself to researching the customs of his homeland and preserving its fairy tales and folklore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaria Tatar chairs the program in folklore and mythology at Harvard, and has edited and translated many collections of fairy tales.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEeika Eichenseer is a historian and preservationist working for the Bavarian government and the director of the\u003cbr\u003eFranz Xaver von Schönwerth Society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56592341959030,"sku":"9780143107422","price":13.92,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32912514.jpg?v=1762260051","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780143107422-the-turnip-princess","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}