Sixty-three tales gathered by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from German storytellers. Here are the ones everybody knows, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Little Red-Cap, the Frog Prince, Briar Rose and Ashputtel, as Cinderella is called, and many that are less familiar: the Golden Bird, Hans in Luck who trades a lump of gold down to nothing, the Fisherman and his Wife, the Elves and the Shoemaker, and the grim Juniper Tree. Clever servants, foolish peasants, wicked stepmothers and talking animals pass through forests where anything can happen.
Context and significance
The brothers published their first collection in 1812 as a work of scholarship and went on revising it for forty years. The English text is the classic translation by Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes, and thirty-two volunteers share the reading, about ten and a half hours, one tale at a time.
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