Product Description

A wonderful collection of all 210 tales and popular legends collected by the Grimm brothers over a century ago.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #101225 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-13
• Original language: German
• Binding: Paperback
• 800 pages

Review
'Among the few indispensable, common-property books upon which Western culture can be founded ... it is hardly too much to say that these tales rank next to the Bible in importance.' - W.H. Auden

From the Back Cover

With an introduction by Padraic Colum and a commentary by Joseph Campbell

Illustrated by Jospeh Scharl

‘Among the few indispensable, common-property books upon which Western culture can be founded ... It is hardly too much to say that these tales rank next to the Bible in importance.’ – W.H. Auden

The tale of ‘Cinderella’ is told wherever stories are still read aloud and everyone is familiar with ‘Rapunzel’ and ‘The Golden Goose’, but who has heard all the wonderful stories collected by the Brothers Grimm? Well, here’s your chance, for within these covers you will find every one of their 210 tales, in all their enchantment and rapture, terror and wisdom, tragedy and beauty. Complete edition first published in English: 1948.

About the Author
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859). Born in Germany, they both studied law before turning to the collection of fairy tales, an endevour which was to occupy them for the rest of their lives.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic - for old & young alike
You don't have to be a child to enjoy this book - the stories are funny, interesting and relevent. The characters & situations they portray can be applied to everyday people & situations - thus the sign of great storytelling - these stories are timeless.
A great book to pick up for a quick read - some of the stories are only one page long.
Definitely a book to have your collection.

Everlasting
I knew some of Grimms fairy tales but had no idea they had written so many - and here they all are! If you are hoping for the sanitised Disney version you'll be disappointed - these are the real stories and there's a whole HEAP of them. Don't just buy it for your kids - buy it for yourself, its Fabulous!

Be Advised
After reading other customer reviews about this book I couldnt wait to have it to hand for I was running out of ideas for the childrens' bedtime story.When you open it up you find hundreds of stories to choose from but unfortunately as I started to read it I was constantly being interupted with questions of "what does 'hast thou' mean daddy ?" and "whats 'ran thither to entreat him' mean ?" and "whats 'hark thee'?".For the book is full of oldy worldy sayings. I found it quite useful to read ahead before reading it at bedtime. It saves lots of questions and time.