Guy Wetmore Carryl

American humorist and poet who retold fairy tales in verse

1873–1904 Humor

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About Guy Wetmore Carryl

Guy Wetmore Carryl was an American humorist and poet. He wrote light, witty verse and short stories, and he is best remembered for Fables for the Frivolous and for Grimm Tales Made Gay, in which he retold the old fairy tales with a modern wink. He died in 1904 at the age of thirty one, so his collected work is small, but his clever rhymes were widely admired in his day.

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Grimm Tales Made Gay

Narrated by Susan G Fellows

Guy Wetmore Carryl takes the old Grimm fairy tales and turns them into witty, rhyming verse, with a modern twist at the end of each. Bluebeard, the Babes in the Wood and...

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