Grimm Tales Made Gay
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01 - How the Babes in the Wood Showed They Couldn’t be Beaten
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02 - How Fair Cinderella Disposed of Her Shoe
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03 - How Little Red Riding Hood Came to be Eaten
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04 - How the Fatuous Wish of a Peasant Came True
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05 - How Hop o'my Thumb got rid of an Onus
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06 - How the Helpmate of Blue Beard made free with a door
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07 - How Rumplestilz Held Out in Vain for a Bonus
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08 - How Jack Made the Giants Uncommonly Sore
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09 - How Rudeness and Kindness Were Justly Rewarded
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10 - How Beauty Contrived to Get Square with the Beast
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11 - How a Fair One no Hope to His Highness Accorded
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12 - How Thomas a Maid from a Dragon Released
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13 - How a Beauty was Waked and Her Suitor was Suited
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14 - How Jack Found that Beans May go Back on a Chap
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15 - How a Cat Was Annoyed and a Poet Was Booted
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16 - How Much Fortunatus Could Do with a Cap
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17 - How a Princess Was Wooed from Habitual Sadness
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18 - How a Girl was too Reckless of Grammar by Far
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19 - How the Peaceful Aladdin Gave Way to His Madness
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20 - How a Fisherman Corked up His Foe in a Jar - Envoi
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Grimm Tales Made Gay (1902) is a public domain work.
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About this book
Princes, fairies, and familiar storybook children speak in the slang of shops, dances, and everyday bargaining in Guy Wetmore Carryl’s comic verse. Grimm Tales Made Gay reshapes traditional tales through brisk rhymes, puns, and morals that often undercut the lesson a reader expects. Cinderella’s sisters fuss over fashion and titled husbands, while the prince treats the dance floor like a place for conspicuous social choices.
Elsewhere, a woman remembered as a princess runs a hair tonic business and dismisses a royal suitor with blunt American expressions. Carryl lets the old fairy tale machinery remain visible while filling it with modern attitudes toward money, status, and romance. The stories can turn dark, but their telling relies on verbal jokes and ironic commentary. Readers who know the familiar plots have the added pleasure of recognizing where the poet bends their conventions.
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Book facts
- Author
- Guy Wetmore Carryl
- Reading time
- About 40 minutes
- Pages
- 86
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Satire
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Joseph Finkberg, Mark F. Smith and Patrick Barringer