The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales

Move over Cinderella Make way for the Turnip Princess And for the ldquoCinderfellasrdquo in these stories which turn our understanding ofgender infairy tales on its headA rare discovery in the world of fairy talesmdashnow for the first time in EnglishWith this volume the holy trinity of fairy talesmdashthe Brothers Grimm Charles Perrault and Hans Christian Andersenmdashbecomes a quartetIn the s Franz Xaver von Schoumlnwerth traversed the forests lowlands and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales gaining the admiration of even the Brothers Grimm Most of Schoumlnwerths work was lostmdashuntil a few years ago when thirty boxes of manushyscripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive Now for the first time Schoumlnwerths lost fairy tales are available in English Violent dark and full of action and upending the relationship between damsels in distress and their dragon-slaying heroes these more than seventy stories bring us closer than ever to the unadorned oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted revolutionizing our understanding of a hallowed genreFor more than sixty-five years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world With more than titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.