The turnip princess :
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TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: London : Penguin Classics, 2015Description: 368 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780143107422 (pbk.) :Uniform titles: Works. Selections. English Subject(s): Fairy tales -- Germany | Customs and FolkloreDDC classification: 398.20943 LOC classification: GR167Summary: During the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traversed the depths of the Black Forest and scaled the heights of the Bavarian Alps, searching out and recording new fairy tales. However, except for a small portion of the tales collected in an obscure 19th-century volume, Schonwerth's works were lost - until a few years ago, when a researcher unearthed 30 boxes of manuscripts in an archive in Germany. Now, for the first time, Schonwerth's lost fairy tales are presented in English.
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| 398.2 .P639 2008 The Hidden People of Iceland | 398.209 .A743 2009 Icelandic folk and fairy tales / | 398.209 .E924 2007 Greek myths & legends / | 398.209 .S362 2015 The turnip princess : | 398.209 .T349 2018 Griechische Götter- und Heldensagen | 398.22 .T349 2015 Germanische Götter- und Heldensagen | 400 .O982 2019 Das große Oxford Wörterbuch - Third Edition/ Wörterbuch |
Translated from the German.
During the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traversed the depths of the Black Forest and scaled the heights of the Bavarian Alps, searching out and recording new fairy tales. However, except for a small portion of the tales collected in an obscure 19th-century volume, Schonwerth's works were lost - until a few years ago, when a researcher unearthed 30 boxes of manuscripts in an archive in Germany. Now, for the first time, Schonwerth's lost fairy tales are presented in English.