The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics)
Rediscovered 19th-century German fairy tales collected by Franz Xaver von Schönwerth, now available in English for the first time.
About This Book
This volume presents a selection of fairy tales collected in the 1800s by Bavarian folklorist Franz Xaver von Schönwerth.
The stories were recently rediscovered in regional archives and are now published together in English for the first time.
Readers encounter classic fairy-tale motifs retold in concise, traditional style drawn directly from oral sources.
The collection offers insight into lesser-known variants of familiar tales as well as entirely new narratives from the German storytelling tradition.
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