Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Jack D. Zipes (Foreword)

Malevolent and dark, the fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm are not for the faint-hearted. The stories were originally published in 1812 and form a vivid and fascinating body of work that is rich in folkloric significance. Replete with sinister characters and grotesque imagery, this collection is the perfect addition to our series of deluxe Gothic & Fantasy giftbooks, and features some of the lesser-known tales alongside favourites like Snow White, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, and Hansel and Gretel.

Genres: Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Short Stories, Fairy Tales

480 pages, Hardcover

Published June 24, 2019

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

[Rochelle ✿]

DNF at page 80/480

Just putting this down for now — I'll pick it up again when I'm feeling up for it!

[anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

I always found the brothers Grimm and their fairy tales fascinating, how can two people be so creative? Many of their fairy tales were modified and told over and over again pretty much everywhere, a few of them are now big Disney movies.
I was always curious to read all their original fairy tales and I’m glad I did it, it was very worth it.
I found it funny that although many of these are children’s tales the original versions are so bizarre and macabre, from Cinderella's sisters cutting their toes off to fit the shoe to Rapunzel’s prince falling from the tower and being blinded by falling with his eyes right into some plants, and Snow Whites waking up from her “deathly sleep” not with a kiss but because the prince took her casket away and the ride was so bumpy she eventually spits out the poisoned apple, very crazy and interesting.

[Darinda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Collection of stories by the Grimm brothers. Interesting, creepy, and entertaining stories.

Volume I:
1 - The frog king or Iron Henry
2 - Cat and mouse in partnership
3 - Our Lady's Child
4 - The story of the youth who went forth to learn what fear was
5 - The wolf and the seven young kids
6 - Faithful John
7 - The good bargain
8 - The wonderful musician
9 - The twelve brothers
10 -The pack of ragamuffins
11 - Little brother and little sister
12 - Rapunzel
13 - The three little men in the wood
14 - The three spinners
15 - Hansel and Gretel
16 - The three snake-leaves
17 - The white snake
18 - The straw, the coal, and the bean
19 - The fisherman and his wife
20 - The valiant little tailor
21 - Cinderella
22 - The riddle
23 - The mouse, the bird, and the sausage
24 - Mother Holle
25 - The seven ravens
26 - Little red-cap
27 - The Bremen town musicians
28 - The singing bone
29 - The devil with the three golden hairs
30 - The louse and the flea
31 - The girl without hands
32 - Clever Hans
33 - The three languages
34 - Clever Else
35 - The tailor in heaven
36 - The wishing-table, the gold-ass, and the cudgel in the sack
37 - Thumbling
38 - The wedding of Mrs. Fox
39 - The elves
40 - The robber bridegroom
41 - Herr Korbes
42 - The godfather
43 - Frau Trude
44 - Godfather Death
45 - Thumbling as journeyman
46 - Fitcher's Bird
47 - The juniper tree
48 - Old Sultan
49 - The six swans
50 - Briar Rose
51 - Fundevogel (Bird-foundling)
52 - King Thrushbeard
53 - Little Snow-white
54 - The knapsack, the hat, and the horn
55 - Rumpelstiltskin
56 - Sweetheart Roland
57 - The golden bird
58 - The dog and the sparrow
59 - Frederick and Catherine
60 - The two brothers
61 - The little peasant
62 - The queen bee
63 - The three feathers
64 - The golden goose
65 - Allerleirauh
66 - The hare's bride
67 - The twelve huntsmen
68 - The thief and his master
69 - Jorinda and Joringel
70 - The three sons of fortune
71 - How six men got on in the world
72 - The wolf and the man
73 - The wolf and the fox
74 - The fox and his cousin
75 - The fox and the cat
76 - The pink
77 - Clever Grethel
78 - The old man and his grandson
79 - The water-nix
80 - The death of the little hen
81 - Brother Lustig
82 - Gambling Hansel
83 - Hans in luck
84 - Hans married
85 - The gold-children
86 - The fox and the geese
Volume II:
87 - The poor man and the rich man
88 - The singing, springing lark
89 - The goose girl
90 - The young giant
91 - The gnome
92 - The king of the golden mountain
93 - The raven
94 - The peasant's wise daughter
95 - Old Hildebrand
96 - The three little birds
97 - The water of life
98 - Doctor Knowall
99 - The spirit in the bottle
100 - The Devil's sooty brother
101 - Bearskin
102 - The willow-wren and the bear
103 - Sweet porridge
104 - Wise folks
105 - Stories about snakes
106 - The poor miller's boy and the cat
107 - The two travellers
108 - Hans my hedgehog
109 - The shroud
110 - The jew among thorns
111 - The skilful huntsman
112 - The flail from heaven
113 - The two kings' children
114 - The cunning little tailor
115 - The bright sun brings it to light
116 - The blue light
117 - The wilful child
118 - The three army-surgeons
119 - The seven Swabians
120 - The three apprentices
121 - The king's son who feared nothing
122 - Donkey cabbages
123 - The old woman in the wood
124 - The three brothers
125 - The devil and his grandmother
126 - Ferdinand the faithful
127 - The iron stove
128 - The lazy spinner
129 - The four skilful brothers
130 - One-eye, two-eyes, and three-eyes
131 - Fair Katrinelje and Pif-Paf-Poltrie
132 - The fox and the horse
133 - The shoes that were danced to pieces
134 - The six servants
135 - The white bride and the black one
136 - Iron John
137 - The three black princesses
138 - Knoist and his three sons
139 - The maid of Brakel
140 - Domestic servants
141 - The lambkin and the little fish
142 - Simeli mountain
143 - Going a-travelling
144 - The donkey
145 - The ungrateful son
146 - The turnip
147 - The old man made young again
148 - The Lord's animals and the Devil's
149 - The beam
150 - The old beggar-woman
151 - The three sluggards
152 - The twelve idle servants
153 - The shepherd boy
154 - The star-money
155 - The stolen farthings
156 - Brides on their trial
157 - Odds and ends
158 - The sparrow and his four children
159 - The story of Schauraffen land
160 - The Ditmarsch tale of wonders
161 - A riddling tale
162 - Snow-White and Rose-Red
163 - The wise servant
164 - The glass coffin
165 - Lazy Harry
166 - The griffin
167 - Strong Hans
168 - The peasant in heaven
169 - Lean Lisa
170 - The hut in the forest
171 - Sharing joy and sorrow
172 - The willow-wren
173 - The sole
174 - The bittern and the hoopoe
175 - The owl
176 - The moon
177 - The duration of life
178 - Death's messengers
179 - Master Pfriem (Master Cobbler's Awl)
180 - The goose-girl at the well
181 - Eve's various children
182 - The nix of the mill-pond
183 - The little folks' presents
184 - The giant and the tailor
185 - The nail
186 - The poor boy in the grave
187 - The true sweethearts
188 - The hare and the hedgehog
189 - The spindle, the shuttle, and the needle
190 - The peasant and the devil
191 - The crumbs on the table
192 - The sea-hare
193 - The master-thief
194 - The ear of corn
195 - The grave-mound
196 - Old Rinkrank
197 - The crystal ball
198 - Maid Maleen
199 - The boots of buffalo-leather
200 - The golden key
Children's Legends:
201 - St. Joseph in the forest
202 - The twelve apostles
203 - The rose
204 - Poverty and humility lead to heaven
205 - God's food
206 - The three green twigs
207 - Our Lady's little glass
208 - The aged mother
209 - The heavenly wedding
210 - The hazel-branch

[❀ danielle ❀ · Rating 2 out of 5]

Got around half way and when I started skimming the stories I decided that I wasn’t enjoying reading the book and will officially dnf the book after months of having it on my currently reading list 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very nice collection of the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. I expect that I'll read more of them at some point. For now, I've only read "Little Red-Cap" which is the old version of "Little Red Riding Hood". It was very like the other version I'd read earlier in the month.

Key differences: The huntsman rescued both Grandmother and Little Red-Cap; they stuff the wolf's stomach full of rocks and, when he gets up to run away from the huntsman, he drops dead. There's also a follow up story where Little Red-Cap has learned not to talk to strange wolves. Her and grandmother end up tricking that wolf into falling off the roof and drowning in a trough of water.

[Allanah Dedić · Rating 2 out of 5]

Okay 👍

[A_Paige · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoy the writing style. Some of these short stories had happy endings, others didn’t. Some were weirdly killed off characters. Very strange, but a good read. The only thing that bothers me is when the stories repeat themselves but have a different ending. It really confuses me. But if you’re interested, I’d say try it out.

[Emily Morris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful

You can pick up and put down and keep going back,
Wonderful stories that make you think,
Clever, spooky and wonderful

[Aussie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was one fantastic read and it was perfect for Spooky month aswell.. I was always curious about the original fairy tales and these were so good

[Brian West · Rating 2 out of 5]

The entire collection is not needed. If you are in the market for Grimm, then just by the greatest hits or something. This was long, repetitive, and mostly bad.

[Pete · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good collection to have on any literary fanatic's bookshelf...very fun to have these classics ready to be picked up at anytime. However, found myself quickly skimming through the majority of the less famous stories due to their repetition-not so much a "sit down and read the whole thing" type of book.

[Scott · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting. Many of the tales are familiar, but have very different and often gruesome endings.

[Michael Otto · Rating 5 out of 5]

Classic Fairy Tales collected by Brothers Grimm. Tales most everyone knows one or more of them by now.