Nesthäkchen and Her Dolls: First English edition of the German Children's Classic Translated and annotated by Steven Lehrer - Brossura

Ury, Else

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1530642000 ISBN 13: 9781530642007

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Riassunto

A Nesthäkchen is the youngest child in a family. Else Ury's Nesthäkchen is a Berlin doctor's daughter, Annemarie Braun, a slim, golden blond, quintessential German girl. The ten book series follows Annemarie from infancy (Nesthäkchen and Her Dolls) to old age and grandchildren (Nesthäkchen with White Hair). This first volume of the series tells the story of Annemarie's early life.

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About the Author:

Else Ury (1877-1943) was a children's author murdered at Auschwitz. Steven Lehrer is a writer who lives in New York. He is author of Wannsee House and the Holocaust, Hitler Sites, and The Reich Chancellery and Führerbunker Complex. He translated volume 4 of the Nesthäkchen series, Nesthäkchen and the World War, in 2006.

Review:

KIRKUS REVIEWA new translation of the first novel in a children's series from a century ago introduces a sunny German heroine. Lehrer continues his important and approachable annotated translation of the series of beloved German children's classics with this English-language rendition of 1913's Nesthäkchen und ihre Puppen. This is the first installment in Ury's 10-book series starring blonde, blue-eyed Annemarie Braun, the "Nesthäkchen," or little pet daughter, in the family of a successful Berlin doctor and his wife. The series gave its readers--adults and children alike--a warmly sentimentalized picture of an "ideal German girl" from her early childhood to her old age. In this volume, Lehrer presents the very beginning of the series, in which the little Nesthäkchen has just turned 6 years old. Her parents spoil her, the family servants dote on her, her brothers tease her affectionately, and, as Annemarie herself asks one of her dolls, "Isn't it a fine world?" Perhaps inevitably, this is by far the most whimsical and carefree of the Nesthäkchen volumes, with consequently less work for Lehrer the conscientious annotator to do (a footnote about whooping cough is pretty much all the critical apparatus he needs to add this time around). Annemarie spends her time being adored by her parents even when she misbehaves and being cosseted by her nanny even when she's an adorable handful. Ury adds to the whimsy by taking readers inside the thoughts of Annemarie's dolls (hence the book's title), presenting their musings about their caretaker and the other toys in the nursery. It's a bright, smiling look at German childhood in the old empire, untouched by the two horrifying world wars that lie in the future. At one point, the Nesthäkchen visits family members on a farm in Arnsdorf, giving Ury plenty of opportunities for heartwarming scenes evoking a country idyll (the book reprints the German edition's charming illustrations). Lehrer's translation remains clear and inviting throughout, and the volume leaves Annemarie poised to depart her nursery and attend school, where more escapades await. The warm and inviting earliest adventures of a favorite children's book character from another era.

BOOKLIFE REVIEW--The BookLife Prize in FictionIn this ably translated series of vignettes from early-1900s Germany, a small girl and her dolls have mostly imagined adventures around Berlin and the countryside.

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1530642000
• ISBN 13: 9781530642007
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 226