The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm All-New Third Edition

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Jack Zipes (illustrator)

800 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 1, 2003

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

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Took a lot of patience. Do not recommend reading straight through, everything starts to blend together. Foundational text

[jade e.m. · Rating 5 out of 5]

my brother said my 8-year-old niece is too young to meet hans, though our dad was reading these to us from age 4 on.

kids these days - you can’t coddle ‘em! haha. frozen 2 is still in theaters, right?