Question

[hils]

Last weeks SPN has got me thinking. Can you buy the old fairy tales? Before they got turned into children's stories? I'd love to read a book with some of them.

Comments

[the-dala.livejournal.com]

You mean the Grimm fairy tales? Sure, you can track down the original versions. I read an awesome comic of them once - very bloody.

[hils.livejournal.com]

OOH! That would be cool

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Yes, you can .

[hils.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I put Grimm Fairy Tales into Amazon and it just came up with all the children's ones.

[supernaturalhel.livejournal.com]

I'd love to read them too! That would be amazing. Let me know if/where you find them!

[hils.livejournal.com]

Check the comment above for a link. You can get the same book on amazon.co.uk

Grimm's fairy tales

[rakshanda.livejournal.com]

You can get the ebook at Project Gutenberg:

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2591

Re: Grimm's fairy tales

[hils.livejournal.com]

OOH! Thanks!

[selinamoonfire.livejournal.com]

One of my grandmothers bought me a little hardback book of the Grimms' Fairy Tales. I was pretty surprised by them since all I'd ever read were the Disney type versions. It's a good thing I was holder when she gave them to me. LOL

[hils.livejournal.com]

I wonder if they're more common in the US because all I have ever seen are the kiddie versions

[selinamoonfire.livejournal.com]

I don't know if they're more common here or not. My copy is over ten years old. Though I have seen them for college courses and literary discussions.

[hils.livejournal.com]

I went into my local book shop today. They only had one copy and it was a children's version

[sussixer.livejournal.com]

You should be able to get them at any library. Just don't go to the children's section, look up Brother's Grimm. We had to study them for a children's Lit. course I took in College, it was very interesting.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'd have loved to have done that