How long does it take to read The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales?
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar takes about 5 hours 32 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 32 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1987. 302 pages, about 83,050 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 14 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 32 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairly tale figures as the subject matter for this study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and Household Tales. This updated and expanded second edition includes a new preface and an appendix containing new translations of six tales, along with commentary by Maria Tatar. Throughout the book, Tatar employs the tools not only of a psychoanalyst but also of a folklorist, literary critic, and historian to examine the harsher aspects of these stories. She presents new interpretations of the powerful stories in this book. Few studies have been written in English on these tales, and none has probed their allegedly happy endings so thoroughly."--Jacket.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Fairy tales, History and criticism, Kinder- und Hausmärchen, Grimm brothers, Fairy tales, classification
