Grimm Tales Made Gay (Audio)

He was born in New York City, the first-born of author Charles Edward Carryl and Mary R. Wetmore.

He had his first article published in The New York Times when he was 20 years old. In 1895, at the age of 22, Carryl graduated from Columbia University. During his college years he had written plays for amateur performances. One of his professors was Harry Thurston Peck, who was scandalized by Carryl’s famous quote “It takes two bodies to make one seduction,” which was a somewhat risqué statement for those times.

This book is a comic rendering in verse of well-loved Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, each ending with a moral and full of puns. The titles of the tales themselves make another verse.

01 - How the Babes in the Wood Showed They Couldn’t be Beaten
02 - How Fair Cinderella Disposed of Her Shoe
03 - How Little Red Riding Hood Came to be Eaten
04 - How the Fatuous Wish of a Peasant Came True
05 - How Hop O’My Thumb got rid of an Onus
06 - How the Helpmate of Blue Beard made free with a door
07 - How Rumplestilz Held Out in Vain for a Bonus
08 - How Jack Made the Giants Uncommonly Sore
09 - How Rudeness and Kindness Were Justly Rewarded
10 - How Beauty Contrived to Get Square with the Beast
11 - How a Fair One no Hope to His Highness Accorded
12 - How Thomas a Maid from a Dragon Released
13 - How a Beauty was Waked and Her Suitor was Suited
14 - How Jack Found that Beans May go Back on a Chap
15 - How a Cat Was Annoyed and a Poet Was Booted
16 - How Much Fortunatus Could Do with a Cap
17 - How a Princess Was Wooed from Habitual Sadness
18 - How a Girl was too Reckless of Grammar by Far
19 - How the Peaceful Aladdin Gave Way to His Madness
20 - How a Fisherman Corked up His Foe in a Jar - Envoi