"While both [Original Bavarian Folktales and the Penguin Classic edition of The Turnip Princess] will give readers ample pleasure, Wolf's conveys a much more accurate idea of Sch?nwerth's aims and achievements." -- Times Literary Supplement
A contemporary of the Brothers Grimm, Franz Xaver von Sch?nwerth collected the folklore, legends, and fairytales of "ordinary folk" in the Upper Palatinate region of his native Bavaria...