Product Description

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JACK ZIPES. Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made of bread, a goose made of gold...the folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers created an astonishingly influential imaginative world. However, this is also a world where a woman serves her stepson up in a stew, a man marries a snake, a princess sleeps with a frog, and an evil queen dances to death in a pair of burning shoes. Violent, funny, disturbing, wise and sometimes beautiful, these stories have intrigued children, adults, scholars, psychologists and artists for centuries. The only complete edition available of the most famous collection of fairy tales ever published, this collection features the 279 stories in an acclaimed, modern, unexpurgated translation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46856 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 768 pages

About the Author
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) were born in Hanau, Germany. They published the first of their many collections of fairy tales in 1812. The story that they wandered about Germany collecting their tales from the lips of peasants is a fairy tale itself. In fact, they invited educated middle class women into their home to tell them the stories they had heard from their servants. The point of their collection of folklore was to study the German language and they also did important work on the German dictionary. The stories were revised to be more appropriate for children in 1819 and were published under the title Children's and Household Tales. By the beginning of the twentieth century Children's and Household Tales was second only to the Bible in the German bestseller lists.

Customer Reviews

Americanised translation
Comprehensive collection but not the way I remember reading them. Good non the less if you don't have any preconceptions.

Fantastic
This collection has many favourite fairy tales as well as lots of new ones that I hadn't read. My five year old loves picking out a story to read each day; as some of them are quite dark I do end up editing them! I can imagine reading the stories here over and over again - they really are classics. And the cover is beautifully illustrated too!