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The Complete Fairy Tales Of Hermann Hesse
''The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse'' is a collection of 22 fairy tales written by Hermann Hesse between the years of 1904 and 1918 and translated by Jack Zipes. A list of the individual fairy tales and the year in which they were written follows. This collection was published in 1995 and is the first English translation for most of the tales. Stories *"The Dwarf", 1904 *"Shadow Play", 1906 *"A Man by the Name of Ziegler", 1908 *"The City", 1910 *"Dr. Knoegle’s End", 1910 *"The Beautiful Dream", 1912 *" The Three Linden Trees", 1912 *"Augustus", 1913 *"The Poet", 1913 *"Flute Dream", 1914 *"A Dream About the Gods", 1914 *"Strange News from Another Planet", 1915 *"Faldum", 1916 *"A Dream Sequence", 1916 *"The Forest Dweller", 1917 *"The Difficult Path", 1917 *"If the War Continues", 1917 *"The European", 1918 *"The Empire", 1918 *"The Painter", 1918 *"The Fairy Tale About the Wicker Chair", 1918 *"Iris", 1918 Eight of these stories also appeared in ''Strange News from Another Sta ...
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Jack Zipes
Jack David Zipes (born June 7, 1937) is a professor emeritus of German, comparative literature, and cultural studies, who has published and lectured on German literature, critical theory, German Jewish culture, children's literature, and folklore. In the latter part of his career he translated two major editions of the tales of the Brothers Grimm and focused on fairy tales, their evolution, and their social and political role in civilizing processes. According to Zipes, fairy tales "serve a meaningful social function, not just for compensation but for revelation: the worlds projected by the best of our fairy tales reveal the gaps between truth and falsehood in our immediate society". His arguments are avowedly based on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and more recently theories of cultural evolution. Education and positions Jack David Zipes was born on June 7, 1937, in New York City, to Celia (Rifkin) and Phillip P. Zipes. He received a BA in political science from Dar ...
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Hermann Hesse
Hermann Karl Hesse (; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include ''Demian'', '' Steppenwolf'', '' Siddhartha'', and '' The Glass Bead Game'', each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Life and work Family background Hermann Karl Hesse was born on 2 July 1877 in the Black Forest town of Calw in Württemberg, German Empire. His grandparents served in India at a mission under the auspices of the Basel Mission, a Protestant Christian missionary society. His grandfather Hermann Gundert compiled a Malayalam grammar and a Malayalam-English dictionary, and also contributed to a translation of the Bible into Malayalam in South India. Hesse's mother, Marie Gundert, was born at such a mission in South India in 1842. In describing her own childhood, she said, "A happy child I was not..." As was usual among mi ...
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Short Story Collection
A short story collection is a book of short stories and/or novellas by a single author. A short story collection is distinguished from an anthology of fiction, which would contain work by several authors (e.g., '' Les Soirées de Médan''). The stories in a collection may or may not share a tone, theme, setting, or characters with one another. Composition of a collection Short story collections are made up of smaller texts—the individual short stories—in order to form a superior whole.Santi, Mara (2014). "Performative Perspectives on Short Story Collections". ''Interférences littéraires/Literaire interferenties'' (12): 143–154. ISSN 2031-2970. In spite of this, each short story does not lose any of its meaning or narrative independence by being included in a collection. This does not mean that short stories do not gain any new meaning from being included in a collection, though. Because each story's context has changed, surrounded by other stories with their o ...
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Bantam Books
Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by parent company Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine, with funding from Grosset & Dunlap and Curtis Publishing Company. It has since been purchased several times by companies including National General, Carl Lindner's American Financial and, most recently, Bertelsmann; it became part of Random House in 1998, when Bertelsmann purchased it to form Bantam Doubleday Dell. It began as a mass market publisher, mostly of reprints of hardcover books, with some original paperbacks as well. It expanded into both trade paperback and hardcover books, including original works, often reprinted in house as mass-market editions. History The company was failing when Oscar Dystel, who had previously worked at Esquire and as editor on Coronet magazine was hired in 19 ...
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Fairy Tales
A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic, enchantments, and mythical or fanciful beings. In most cultures, there is no clear line separating myth from folk or fairy tale; all these together form the literature of preliterate societies. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described) and explicit moral tales, including beast fables. In less technical contexts, the term is also used to describe something blessed with unusual happiness, as in "fairy-tale ending" (a happy ending) or "fairy-tale romance". Colloquially, the term "fairy tale" or "fairy story" can also mean any far-fetched story or tall tale; it is used especially of any story that not only is not true, but could not possibly be true. Legends are perceived as real within their cul ...
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1912 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1912. Events *January 5 (December 23, 1911 O.S.) – Konstantin Stanislavski and Edward Gordon Craig's seminal symbolist Moscow Art Theater production of ''Hamlet'' opens. *January 21 – Joseph Conrad achieves his first popular success as the ''New York Herald'' begins serializing his novel '' Chance''. He broke off with it in 1906, but sold the rights to the unfinished work in June 1911. Conrad continues to work on the book, while the first chapters appear weekly in the ''Herald''. He completes it on March 26. *March 3 – Frieda Weekley meets D. H. Lawrence in Nottingham. *April 14– 15 – The ocean liner strikes an iceberg and sinks on her maiden voyage from the United Kingdom to the United States. American mystery writer Jacques Futrelle, English journalist and publisher William Thomas Stead and American bibliophile Harry Elkins Widener are among over 1500 dead. A copy of the ''Rubaiyat ...
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The Three Linden Trees
"The Three Linden Trees" (German: "Drei Linden") is a 1912 fairy tale by Hermann Hesse strongly influenced by the Greek legend of Damon and Pythias. The story, set in the medieval period, tries to explain three huge linden trees whose branches intertwine to cover the entire cemetery of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Berlin. According to the story, three brothers care very deeply for each other. One day, the youngest brother comes across a blacksmith's apprentice who has just been stabbed to death. While he decides whether to tell the authorities or to flee the scene of the crime, the city constables find him and arrest him for the murder. At his trial, facts come out that link him to the victim, and it appears that he will be hanged, despite all his protests that he is innocent. Just then, the middle brother, who has been waiting for his younger brother to return home, hears what has happened. Not wanting to see his brother executed, he appears in court and accuses himself ...
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Strange News From Another Star
''Strange News from Another Star'' is a collection of eight short stories written by the German author Hermann Hesse between 1913 and 1918. It was first published as ''Märchen'' in German in 1919 and was translated to English by Denver Lindley in 1972. The first English publication was in 1972. Stories The stories, with the year in which they were written, are: *"Augustus" (1913) *"The Poet" (1913) *"Flute Dream" (1914) *"Strange News from Another Star" (1915) *"The Hard Passage" (1917) *"A Dream Sequence" (1916) *"Faldum" (1916) *"Iris" (1918) ''Märchen'' (which means Fairy Tales) comprised seven of these stories. "Flute Dream" was added for the English publication in 1972 as per an arrangement Hesse had made for the final collected edition of his works. These stories were also published in '' The Complete Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse'' in 1995 with a new English translation by Jack Zipes. Two of the stories' English titles changed with this new translation: *"Strange News f ...
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Denver Lindley
Denver Lindley (1904-1982) was an American translator noted for his translations of works by Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Ernst Schnabel, André Maurois, and others. Lindley studied at Princeton University and joined ''Collier's ''Collier's'' was an American general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter F. Collier, Peter Fenelon Collier. It was launched as ''Collier's Once a Week'', then renamed in 1895 as ''Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal'', shortened i ...'' magazine as an editor in 1927. Works Translated * "The History of Jesus Christ" Author, R. L. (Raymond Leopold) Bruckberger, The Viking Press, 1965. References Denver Lindley, Editor, Dies; Translator of Mann, Maurois NYT, February 15, 1982. 1904 births 1982 deaths German–English translators 20th-century American translators {{US-translator-stub ...
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1995 Short Story Collections
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Short Story Collections By Hermann Hesse
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