THE WILD GIRL
Book ID/图书代码： 03540013B60995
English Summary/英文概要： One of the great untold love stories - how the Grimm brothers discovered their famous fairy tales - filled with drama and passion, and taking place during the Napoleonic Wars.
The Wild Girl tells the story of Dortchen Wild. Growing up next door to the Grimm brothers in Hesse-Cassel, a small German kingdom, Dortchen told Wilhelm some of the most powerful and compelling stories in the famous fairytale collection.
Dortchen first met the Grimm brothers in 1805, when she was twelve. One of six sisters, Dortchen lived in the medieval quarter of Cassel, a town famous for its grand royal palace, its colossal statue of Herkules, and a fairytale castle of turrets and spires built as a love nest for the Prince-Elector’s mistress. Dortchen was the same age as Lotte Grimm, the only girl in the Grimm family, and the two became best friends.
In 1806, Hesse-Cassel was invaded by the French. Napoleon created a new Kingdom of Westphalia, under the rule of his dissolute young brother Jérôme. The Grimm brothers began collecting fairytales that year, wanting to save the old stories told in spinning-circles and by the fire from the domination of French culture. Dortchen was the source of many of the tales in the Grimm brother’s first collection of fairy tales, which was published in 1812, the year of Napoleon’s disastrous march on Russia.
Dortchen’s own father was cruel and autocratic, and he beat and abused her. He frowned on the friendship between his daughters and the poverty-stricken Grimm Brothers. Dortchen had to meet Wilhelm in secret to tell him her stories. All the other sisters married and moved away, but Dortchen had to stay home and care for her sick parents. Even after the death of her father, Dortchen and Wilhelm could not marry – the Grimm brothers were so poor they were surviving on a single meal a day.
After the overthrow of Napoleon and the eventual success of the fairytale collection, Dortchen and Wilhelm were at last able to marry. They lived happily ever after with Wilhelm’s elder brother Jakob for the rest of their lives.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 六个姐妹，野丫头多勒茜，生活在19世纪初，德国一个名叫黑森 - 卡塞尔小王国里。她发现自己身不由已地会被隔壁英俊但贫困的男孩所吸引，这是德国著名民俗学家威廉•格林的一部俊美的童话故事。那是一个充斥着暴政和恐怖的时代。拿破仑•波拿巴想要征服整个欧洲大陆，而黑森 - 卡塞尔只是即将要覆灭的一个王国之一。人民被迫在法国统治下生活。威廉和他的兄弟，在狭促之隅的屋内火炉旁娓娓而道的久远故事中，悄无声息地开启他们的反抗征程。正如多勒茜向威廉所叙述的这些最具震撼力的故事中这对少男少女间的萌生的爱情，有朝一日将会成为他和兄弟雅各布，蜚声世界的童话故事集“格林童话”一样。但多勒茜的父亲不会同意女儿的感情一样，战争，死亡和贫困以及阴谋将会让这对年轻的恋人分离。然而坚强的多勒茜决定要找到一条出路。
这部令人难忘，拥有细腻丰富故事情节，凯特•特福赛的这本动人的故事中，巧妙地抓住了一个年轻女子对爱情的坚定信念。（Sandy）
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About the Author/作者介绍： Kate Forsyth is the internationally bestselling author of more than twenty books for children and adults, including The Puzzle Ring and The Gypsy Crown.
Since her first published book was named a Best First Novel of 1998 by Locus Magazine, Kate has been shortlisted for numerous awards, including a CYBIL Award in the US. In 2007, Kate became the first author to win five Aurealis awards in a single year when Books 2-6 in the Chain of Charms series were jointly awarded the 2007 Aurealis Award for Children’s Fiction. Book 5: The Lightning Bolt was also named a Notable Book for 2007 by the Children’s Book Council of Australia.
Kate lives by the sea in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and three children, and many thousands of books.
Format:电子手稿
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