Book Title 

The Turnip Princess: and other newly discovered fairy tales

Book Author/Editor(s) 

Franz Xaver von Schönwerth

Illustrator(s)

Engelbert Suss

Publisher

Penguin Books

Date Published

2015

Decade Published 

2010-2019

Publisher City

New York

Publisher Country

United States

Language

English

Rights

Copyright not evaluated

Digital Copy

Available at the Internet Archive

CU Library Entry

Available here

Book Notes

Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traversed the forests, lowlands, and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales. Most of Schönwerth's work was lost-- until a few years ago, when thirty boxes of manuscripts were uncovered in a German municipal archive. Available for the first time in English, the tales are violent, dark, full of action, and upend the relationship between damsels in distress and their dragon-slaying heroes.