Harvest/HBJ Book The Robber Bridegroom, (Paperback)

from AliceAnna

A lovely fairy tale full of magic and mystical elements.

from laytonwoman3rd

What an imagination that dear woman had. This original fairy tale set on the American frontier has so many familiar elements skewed in so many ways, its brilliance is just staggering. Welty took the Brothers Grimm and some American tall tales, and scrambled them into something entirely new. And t...

from William345

Based on a Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same name, the novella evinces masterful use of narrative compression which gives it the ring of parable. Set before the American Revolution, Clement, a Southern planter who has done quite well for himself, returns home from selling his tobacco to the B...

from laytonwoman3rd

What an imagination that dear woman had. This original fairy tale set on the American frontier has so many familiar elements skewed in so many ways, its brilliance is just staggering. Welty took the Brothers Grimm and some American tall tales, and scrambled them into something entirely new. And t...

from CherieDooryard

Once I gave up trying to dig out what this was trying to *say* (an unfortunate habit us former English majors always seem to hang on to) and instead decided to simply enjoy it, it became much better. An odd, magical, strange little story with lush-yet-restrained prose.