"Hansel and
Gretel and other stories by the Brothers Grimm" (1925)
Illustrated by Kay Nielsen
"Hansel and Gretel and other stories by the Brothers Grimm" was
co-published
in
1925
by Hodder and Stoughton,
London
(for the market
supplied through
the
United Kingdom) and by George H
Doran Company, New York (for the
United States market).
A later French-language First Edition, " Fleur-de-Neige et d'Autres Contes de Grimm", was published by H Piazza
(Paris) in 1929 with a
stunning suite of marginal monotone illustrations designed by Pierre Courtois.
The tales included from the Brothers Grimm in this anthology include:
'Hansel
and
Gretel'; 'The Six Swans';
'Little Brother
and Little Sister';
'The Fisherman
and His
Wife'; 'The Drummer'; 'Rosebud'; 'The Spindle, the
Shuttle
and the
Needle'; 'Snowdrop'; 'Jorinde and Joringel';
'The Goose Girl'; 'Clever Alice';
'Cherry; or,
The Frog Bride'; 'The Three Little Men
in the Wood'; 'The Valiant
Little
Tailor';
'Roland';
'The Juniper Tree'; 'Rapunzel'; 'The Three Magic Gifts'; 'Catskin';
'The Golden Goose'; 'Rumpelstiltskin'; and 'The Two Brothers'.
The review published in "The Outlook" (Vol. 144; 1926) provided the
following comment on the book and Nielsen's illustrations:
There is no more beautiful holiday book than Kay
Nielsen's "Hansen and Gretel", pale symbols
melting into paler backgrounds; planes of action,
successive stages of one idea bordering on
expressionism ...
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