were two great big panthers.

other little boy, except that he was a lot smarter.

Some days he'd take a notion to go and hunt for his little sister, and

This means something." So he took the bran and scattered it so that it led to his own house.

Crying, she went to her sister, who lived upstairs in the castle

taking the key she secretly crept to the room, stuck the key into the lock, and opened the door.

f you value your life, y

When the young wife arrived there, there was great joy throughout the entire castle, and King Bluebeard was very happy as well.

asked the father if he would not give her to him to be his wife.

a very worthy gentleman, who made her forget the ill time she had passed with Bluebeard.

And kiss her to the world of Consciousness.

y that he bent over and kissed her.

Then the prince and Brier-Rose got married, and they lived long and happily until they died.

veryone began to fall asleep: the horses in the stalls, the pigeons on the roof, the dogs in the courtyard, the flies on the walls. Even the fire on the hearth flickered, stopped moving, and fell asleep.

miracle of beauty.

ecause you did not invite me, I tell you that in her fifteenth year, your daughter will prick herself with a spindle and fall over dead."

he feared her, though he loved her

prince is always valiant.

hunting on that side of the country, asked:

a proclamation that nobody should dare to come near it.

the fairies had said it, caused the princess to be carried into the finest apartment in his palace

e expiration of which a king's son shall come and awake her."

spindle and die of the wound. This terrible gift made the whole company tremble, and everybody fell a crying.

The youngest gave her for gift that she should be the most beautiful person in the world; the next, that she should have the wit of an angel; the third, that she should have a wonderful grace in everything she did; the fourth, that she should dance perfectly well; the fifth, that she should sing like a nightingale; and the sixth, that she should play all kinds of music to the utmost perfection

After the ceremonies of the christening

Those whom fortune favors Find good luck even in their sleep.

And he never tired at playing the game of three with his wife and children,

The king suddenly appeared, and finding this spectacle

them into several tasteful dishes for her wretched husband

great joy

calling bread bread, and wine wine.

and of Sun and Moon (those were the two children's names), and when he took his rest, he called either one or other of them. Now the king's wife began to suspect that something was wrong from the delay of

Now after nine months Talia delivered two beautiful children

sometimes referring to her mirror as women do.

red-hot iron shoes,

A prince came one June day

She was as full of life as soda pop.

Yes. It’s a good omen, they said, and will bring us luck.

and at each stood a hungry wolf, his tongue lolling out like a worm.

Pride pumped in her like poison.

the virgin is a lovely number: cheeks as fragile as cigarette paper, arms and legs made of Limoges, lips like Vin Du Rhône, rolling her china-blue doll eyes

fairest of all?"

Little Snow White looked out of the window and called out, "Good-day my good woman, what have you to sell?" " Good things, pretty things," she answered, "stay-laces of all colors," and she pulled out one which was woven of bright-colored silk. "I may let the worthy old woman in," thought Snow White, and she unbolted the door and bought the pretty laces. "Child," said the old woman, "what a fright you look, come, I will lace you properly for once."

as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood of the window-frame.

"Looking-glass, looking-glass, on the wall, Who in this land is the fairest of all?"

Then she was forced to put on the red-hot shoes, and dance until she dropped down dead.

The tales in the first edition were collected not from peasants, as is commonly believed, but mainly from literate people whom the Grimms came to know quite well.

Instead, these are stark narratives about brutal living conditions in the nineteenth century. For instance, “The Children of Famine” begins this way: Once upon a time there was a wo

They intended to trace and grasp the essence of cultural evolution and to demonstrate how natural language, stemming from the needs, customs, and rituals of the common people, created authentic bonds and helped forge civilized communities.

In fact, the Grimms never intended the tales to be read by children. The tales are about children and families and how they reacted to the difficult conditions under which they lived.

the splendid furniture, the books, pictures, gold, silver, and precious goods it contained;

I personally feel that defamiliarization is found almost everywhere form is found... An image is not a permanent referent for those mutable complexities of life which are revealed through it, its purpose is not to make us perceive meaning, but to create a special perception of the object -it creates a vision of the object instead of serving as a means for knowing i

the universe is the same, the literatures are the same, we just look at them from a different view-point;

it showed that world literature was indeed a system—but a system of variations

Distant reading: where distance, let me repeat it, is a condition of knowl-edge: it allows you to focus on units that are much smaller or much larger than the text: devices, themes, tropes—or genres and systems.

A new “science” emerges where a new problem is pursued by a new method.’

but the point is that there are thirty thousand nineteenth-century British novels out there, forty, fifty, sixty thousand—no one really knows, no one has read them, no one ever will. And then there are French novels, Chinese, Argentinian, American . . .Reading ‘more’ is always a good thing, but not the solution

I consider fairy-tale techniques as the medium by which I transform fictional worlds into emotional planes of existence and push my aesthetic beyond what is familiar to me.

it is impossible for a Poet to succeed in it, who has not a particular Cast of Fancy, and an Imagination naturally fruitful and superstitious. Besides this, he ought to be very well versed in Legends and Fables, antiquated Romances, and the Traditions of Nurses and old Women, that he may fall in with our natural Prejudices, and humour those Notions which we have imbibed in our Infancy.