Grimm's Fairy Tales - J.L.C. & W.C. Grimm

About the Book

This selection of their folk tales was made and translated by Lucy Crane, and includes firm favourites such as Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White. It is illustrated throughout by Walter Crane’s charming line drawings.

Tales Include:

• The Frog Prince
• Rapunzel
• Hansel and Grethel
• Cinderella
• Little Red-cap (Little Red Riding Hood)
• The Bremen Town Musicicians
• Tom Thumb
• Tom Thumb’s Travels
• The Sleeping Beauty
• Snow-white
• Rumpelstiltskin

About the Authors

Brothers Grimm, German Brüder Grimm, German folklorists and linguists best known for their Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1812–22; also called Grimm’s Fairy Tales), which led to the birth of the modern study of folklore. Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (b. January 4, 1785, Hanau, Hesse-Kassel [Germany]—d. September 20, 1863, Berlin) and Wilhelm Carl Grimm (b. February 24, 1786, Hanau, Hesse-Kassel [Germany]—d. December 16, 1859, Berlin) together compiled other collections of folk music and folk literature, and Jacob in particular did important work in historical linguistics and Germanic philology, which included the formulation of Grimm’s law. They were among the most important German scholars of their time.