The Brothers Grimm: Two Lives, One Legacy

by Donald R. Hettinga

Hardcover, 2001

Status

Available

Local notes

921 GRI

Barcode

5703

Publication

Clarion Books (2001), Edition: First Edition, 180 pages

Description

A biography of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the two eighteenth-century brothers who collected the fairy tales and legends of the German people.

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

180 p.; 8 inches

User reviews

LibraryThing member joeydag
Juvenile non-fiction! A wonderful way to be introduced to the lives of the Grimm brothers. The author does a find job of laying out their lives and the part they play in history. The older brother, Jacob, was quite a scholar of philology and a leading figure in German nationalism, which
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unfortunately was appropriated by the Nazis. I read it in a day and I was impressed by this work.
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Pages

180

Rating

(2 ratings; 4)
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