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...Thumb (1958). A terrific adaptation of Grimm, with Russ Tamblyn, Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers. Ch. 4, 4:30 p.m. 2 hours...
...their fantasy, the tales thrive on very real love, hate, envy, greed, murder and even cannibalism. As Translator Segal notes, nowhere in all the Grimm fairy tales can one find a single fairy. The term seems to have been popularized in England about the time when the Grimm stories were being translated and prettified for children. Take Snow White, for example: in most bowdlerized versions, the wicked stepmother orders the huntsman to bring back Snow White's heart. In the original folk story, it is her lungs and liver that the bad lady wants-so that...
Death and transfiguration are at the heart of many of Grimm's tales, most notably in the title story The Juniper Tree. A young mother dies and is buried under a juniper tree. The father remarries a woman who, greedy for his inheritance, kills his little son. She disposes of the body by cooking it in a stew that the father then eats. Little sister, who knows what is up, sadly buries the bones under the juniper. Magically, the boy is transformed into a gaudy bird who eventually kills the stepmother and then is reborn again...
...GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 128 pages. Viking. $6.95. A predictable score of Grimm old favorites (samples: The Fisherman and His Wife, The Robber Bridegroom) with color and black-and-white pictures from the 1909 Rackham edition. The original English translation by Mrs. Edgar Lucas is laced with "prithees" and "shan'ts." (The flounder says to the fisherman, "I shan't be good...
...Grimm illustrations brought Rackham, who died in 1939, his first great success. But he went on to do nearly everything from Scrooge to Cinderella, from The Sleeping Beauty to The Wind in the Willows. Rackham's gnarled giants, dark woods and pallid, feathery Edwardian maidens still compel-and the price of this new edition is commendably...