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Once upon a time

Once upon a time there lived in Germany two brothers who loved a good story – one with magic and danger, royalty and villains. At school they met a wise man who led them to a treasure – a library of old books with tales more enchanting than any they had ever heard. Aspired, the brothers began collecting their own stories, listening to the folktales people told them. Soon they produced their own treasure – a book of fairy tales that would charm millions in faraway lands for generations to come.

The brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, named their story collection Children’s and Household Tales and published it in Germany in 1812. The collection has been translated into more than 160 languages, from Inupiat in the Arctic to Swahili in Africa. As a world Publishing phenomenon it competes with the’Bible.

The stories and their characters continue to feature in virtual ly every media: theatre, opera, comic books, movies, paintings, rock music, advertising, fashion. The Japanese have built two theme parks devoted to the tales. ln the United States the Grimms’ collection helped launch Disney as a media giant.

Such fame would have shocked the humble Grimms. During their lifetime the collection sold few copies in Germany. The early editions were not even aimed at children. They had no illustrations, and scholarly footnotes took up almost as much space as the tales themselves. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm viewed themselves as patriotic students of folklore. They began their work at a time when Germany had been occupied by the French under Napoleon. The new rulers suppressed local culture. As young scholars, the brothers Grimm began working on the fairy tale collection in order to save the endangered oral storytelling tradition of Germany.

Long before the Grimms’ time, storytelling thrived in inns, barns and the homes of peasant women. Düring winter nights, as they sat spinning wool, women entertained themselves with tales of adventure, romance and magic. Altogether, 40 such storytellers delivered tales to the Grimms. One of them, Marie, was credited with narrating many of the most famous tales: Linie Red Riding Hood, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty. But these were not from the German oral tradition. Marie had had French nannies who retold stories to her that they themselves had read in a collection written by Charles Perrault in 1697, Tales of My Mot her Goose.

Although the brothers implied that they were just keeping records of tales, Wilhelm continued to polish and reshape the stories up to the final edition of 1857. In an effort to make them more acceptable to children and their parents, he stressed the moral of each tale, and emphasized gender roles. According to the Grimms, the collection served as ‘a manual of manners’. To this day, parents read them to their children because they approve of the lessons in the stories: keep your promises, don’t talk to strangers, work hard, obey your parents. And so it was that the Grimm s’ fairy tales lived happily ever after.

1) The Grimm brothers began to collect their own book of tales in childhood.
1. True
2. False
3. Not stated

2) Children ’s and Household Tales has more copies than the Bible.
1. True
2. False
3. Not stated

3) The Grimms’ tales were used to create attractions for children.
1. True
2. False
3. Not stated

4) The Grimms’ collection of stories was a great success at once.
1. True
2. False
3. Not stated

5) The first book was written to preserve the oral folklore at hard times.
1. True
2. False
3. Not stated

6) There were some French tales by Charles Perrault in Grimms’ collection.
1. True
2. False
3. Not stated

7) Wilhelm Grimm rewrote many stories to suit children and their parents’ tastes.
1. True
2. False
3. Not stated

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