The Brothers Grimm: A Biography - Hardcover

$35.00

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography - Hardcover

Name: The Brothers Grimm: A Biography - Hardcover
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SKU: 9780300221756
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by Ann Schmiesing

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Book Overview

The first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm

A New Yorker "Best Book of 2024" - Winner of the Wayland D. Hand Prize, sponsored by the American Folklore Society - Winner of the Katharine Briggs Award of the Folklore Society

"Ann Schmiesing . . . has brought the brothers to life in their fullness."--Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal

More than two hundred years ago, the German brothers Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) published a collection of fairy tales that remains famous the world over. It has been translated into some 170 languages--more than any other German book--and the Brothers Grimm are among the top dozen most translated authors in the world. In addition to collecting tales, the Grimms were mythographers, linguists, librarians, civil servants, and above all the closest of brothers, but until now, the full story of their lifelong endeavor to preserve and articulate a German cultural identity has not been well known.

Drawing on deep archival research and decades of scholarship, Ann Schmiesing tells the affecting story of how the Grimms' ambitious projects gave the brothers a sense of self-preservation through the atrocities of the Napoleonic Wars and a series of personal losses. They produced a vast corpus of work on mythology and medieval literature, embarked on a monumental German dictionary project, and broke scholarly ground with Jacob's linguistic discovery known as Grimm's Law. Setting their story against a rich historical backdrop, Schmiesing offers a fresh consideration of the profound and yet complicated legacy of the Brothers Grimm.

ISBN	9780300221756
Author	Ann Schmiesing
Publisher	Yale University Press
Genre	Biography and Literature
Format	Hardcover
Published	October 2024
Language	ENG- English
Pages	360
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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