Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales, Revisited, Volume 1

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Ulf Bjorklund (Narrator)

Let yourself be transported back to "Once Upon A Time" with these engaging fables from the Brothers Grimm. These are magical adventures from the original storytellers, beloved throughout the world and passed down through the centuries - captured here in high quality audio. From Rumpelstiltskin to Snow-White, visit the world of the cautionary tales of Germanic folklore that inspired the modern fairy tales of your childhood.

Genres: Classics, Fiction, Audiobook

Audiobook

First published January 9, 2012

About the author

German philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm in 1822 formulated Grimm's Law, the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-1859), he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812-1815).

Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European p shifted to Germanic f, t shifted to th, and k shifted to h. Indo-European b shifted to Germanic p, d shifted to t, and g shifted to k. Indo-European bh shifted to Germanic b, dh shifted to d, and gh shifted to g.

This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental German Dictionary and his Deutsche Mythologie .

Adapted from Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Jessica]

Charming. The Grimm brothers collected old folklore stories. They were devout Reformed Christians with Calvinist beliefs. Tales in the first edition were recorded as they were passed on orally, and some were dark and unsuitable for children. After the first edition, they revised the tales to clean up, polish, and added many Christian elements in subsequent editions. They have altered moralities in the stories to fall in line with more Christian morals so that the latest seventh edition has emerged cleaner and more palatable.

[Brianna Idleman]

Libby Audio. Classic read. Good narration.

[Victoria Barker]

It was interesting to hear some original stories!

[James Biser]

This is a fine collection of stories collected by the Brothers Grimm. These tales are fun to review again and again.

[Joshua Kitzmiller]

Fun short book to listen to. I’ve never heard any of the original Grimm stories so this was a good read for me. I liked th narrator

[David Jaspers]

They're short. Fun to try to figure out which life lessons they carry.

[Jillypenny]

A. This was not the original stories, as I had hoped. These are the tamed-down one for modern children.

[Z]

Love hearing the oldies but goodies, even if some of them really don't make any sense.