Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

On her fourteenth birthday, he gives her a bowdlerized translation of Ovid’s Metamorphosis.

And on and on it went—that duet between the dumb, praying lady and the big, hollow man who was so full of loving echoes.

responsibilities of the storyteller – to his audience, to language, to his story and – not the least important thing – to his family’s finances.