A wonderful collection of lesser known and darker fairy tales from beloved authors. Illustrated with beautiful colourized still images from German Expressionist movies. A full-color book, with different stories ranging from tragedy to dark humour. The stories include the following classics: "The Story of a Mother" "The Jewish Girl" , "One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes" "Prince Verdeprato" "Clever Hans" "The Shadow" "Bluebeard" . The illustrations are beautiful colourized photographs from several German expressionist films such as "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", "Der Golem", "Metropolis", "Nosferatu", "Waxworks", among other films from the 1920s. It is an excellent book for children and adults, for fairy tale lovers and cinephiles, and for anyone with excellent taste both artistic and literary. I
A wonderful collection of lesser known and darker fairy tales from beloved authors. Illustrated with beautiful colourized still images from German Expressionist movies. A full-color book, with different stories ranging from tragedy to dark humour. The stories include the following classics: "The Story of a Mother" "The Jewish Girl" , "One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes" "Prince Verdeprato" "Clever Hans" "The Shadow" "Bluebeard" . The illustrations are beautiful colourized photographs from several German expressionist films such as "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", "Der Golem", "Metropolis", "Nosferatu", "Waxworks", among other films from the 1920s. It is an excellent book for children and adults, for fairy tale lovers and cinephiles, and for anyone with excellent taste both artistic and literary. I