The turnip princess :
Material type: 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.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Books | Main Library Non-Fiction - General Stacks | 398.209 .S362 2015 | Available | 31096 |
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.