| Author: | George Webbe Dasent | ISBN: | 1230000790659 |
| Publisher: | Media Galaxy | Publication: | November 20, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | George Webbe Dasent |
| ISBN: | 1230000790659 |
| Publisher: | Media Galaxy |
| Publication: | November 20, 2015 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
George Webbe Dasent (1817-1896) was a folklorist and translator of legends and fairy-tales into English. Dasent was acquainted with Jacob Grimm who advised him to study mythology. Eventually George Dasent became a professor of English literature.
The beginning of this fairy-tale may remind our readers of many other similar stories: the two step-sisters who have to live together and don’t like each other. One day they go out to the well to spin there and decide to have a competition: the loser will go down the well. So one of the sisters loses and goes down… to find a beautiful world of magic!
George Webbe Dasent (1817-1896) was a folklorist and translator of legends and fairy-tales into English. Dasent was acquainted with Jacob Grimm who advised him to study mythology. Eventually George Dasent became a professor of English literature.
The beginning of this fairy-tale may remind our readers of many other similar stories: the two step-sisters who have to live together and don’t like each other. One day they go out to the well to spin there and decide to have a competition: the loser will go down the well. So one of the sisters loses and goes down… to find a beautiful world of magic!
