Grimm Tales Made Gay - With Gay Pictures by Albert Levering

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Guy Wetmore Carryl was an American comic and poet. Carryl was born in New York City, the first child of author Charles Edward Carryl and Mary R. Wetmore. He had his first essay published in The New York Times when he was twenty years old. Carryl graduated from Columbia University in 1895, when she was 22 years old. During his college years, he wrote plays for amateur productions, including the inaugural Varsity Show. One of his lecturers was Harry Thurston Peck, who was scandalized by Carryl's famous quip, "It takes two bodies to make one seduction," which was considered risqué at the time. Following graduation, in 1896, he worked as a staff writer at Munsey's Magazine under Frank Munsey and was eventually promoted to managing editor. He later proceeded to work for Harper's Magazine and was transferred to Paris. While in Paris, he contributed to Life, Outing, Munsey's, and Collier's, as well as his own independent work. Carryl's most well-known works were comic poems that were parodies of Aesop's Fables, such as "The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven," and Mother Goose nursery rhymes, such as "The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet," which are still famous today.

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This edition of Grimm Tales Made Gay, contains parodies of many of the Brothers Grimm's narratives - as never seen before. It includes the fantastic children's stories of 'How Little Red Riding Hood Came to be Eaten', 'How the Babes in the Wood showed they Couldn't be Beaten', 'How Beauty was waked and her Suitor was Suited', 'How Jack found that Beans May go back on a Chap', 'How a Cat was Annoyed and a Poet was Booted' - and many more. They are wonderfully illustrated by Albert Levering (1869 - 1929) - an illustrator and author famed for his light-hearted and comical touches. The Brothers Grimm are perhaps the best known folklorists of all time. Die Brüder Grimm; Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859), were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors - who together specialized in collecting and publishing folklore during the nineteenth century. The popularity of their collected tales has endured well; they have been translated into more than 100 languages, and remain in print in the present day. This is a text to be appreciated by young and old alike; extraordinary for its literary as well as artistic significance. Pook Press celebrates the great 'Golden Age of Illustration' in children's literature - a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration from the 1880s to the 1930s. Our collection showcases classic fairy tales, children's stories, and the work of some of the most celebrated artists, illustrators and authors.