My fairy tale exploration has officially gone beyond the Grimm realm, with my reading of The Snow Maiden and other Russian Tales, translated and retold by Bonnie C. Marshall (advised by Alla V. Kulagina). I’m going to talk a little bit about the particular edition I read, and then cover some of the fairy tales and stories from the various sections.
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On the Road: Maine State Library
There’s Something About The Maine State Library
For the first time, I visited the Maine State Library and – shocker – it was fantastic.
My trip was prompted by the latest book chosen for the #AnHistorianReads book club. The library I frequent did not have a copy, and I could not request the book from the Maine State Library (to be delivered to a nearby library they are connected to) without a state library card. So I decided to spend a lovely Saturday morning making the trip up to Augusta (the capital of Maine) to get a card and the book.
Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales: The Rabbit’s Bride
“There was once a woman who lived with her daughter in a beautiful cabbage-garden; and there came a rabbit and ate up all the cabbages.”
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Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales: The Death of the Hen
“Once on a time the cock and the hen went to the nut mountain, and they agreed beforehand that whichever of them should find a nut was to divide it with the other.”
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Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales: The Straw, The Coal, and the Bean
“There lived in a certain village a poor old woman who had collected a mess of beans, and was going to cook them.”
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Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales: Hansel and Gretel
“Near a great forest there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife and his two children; the boy’s name was Hansel and the girl’s Gretel.”
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