Jacob Grimm

Wilhelm Grimm

A definitive compilation of more than two hundred traditional fairy tales, compiled by the Brothers Grimm, includes the stories of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow-White, Hnsel and Gretel, Little Red-Cap, and Briar Rose, among others, accompanied by explanatory and historical material, as well as commentary by Joseph Campbell. Reissue. 10,000 first printing.

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

Went in thinking “meh,” came out cackling. Grimm’s tales are unhinged: frogs hit walls and turn into husbands, beans laugh themselves to death, and orphans die in open graves.

Best ones feel like chaotic D&D quests (Two Brothers, Brother Lustig), others are just delightfully weird (The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean).

Liana

Went in thinking “meh,” came out cackling. Grimm’s tales are unhinged: frogs hit walls and turn into husbands, beans laugh themselves to death, and orphans die in open graves.

Best ones feel like chaotic D&D quests (Two Brothers, Brother Lustig), others are just delightfully weird (The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean).

Dark, funny, and completely bonkers.



Grimms Complete Fairy Tales

Always a classic. Easy listen and more interesting imo than more modern fairytales in a way since the Grimm stories are a bit darker.

Erin Goss

Once upon a time, two brothers wished to preserve their German folklore in a collection of tales that they believed had been handed down for generations. When they began in 1812 they had just 86 stories that rather harshly reflected the difficult life of European peasantry. Subsequent editions would grow to hold over 200 tales. As time passed, the Brothers Grimm found that their collection of fairy tales, with all of its royalty, magical creatures, and brave adventures, entranced those who read them. This compilation of fairy tales which includes the complete canon of over 200 tales has become a beloved set of classical stories the world over. Presented here in this edition is the faithful translation of Margaret Hunt.

Grimms' Complete Fairy Tales

I started reading this in late November. It took me about three months to get through all of it, with breaks to read other books to cleanse the palate. I feel like an albatross has been lifted from my neck. I think this is probably better as a reference book rather than a book to read straight through, front to back, because there's a lot, lot, lot of repetition. That's just how folklore is, of course, different tale types, Aarne-Thompson and all that, but it does get old reading the fourth or fifth story in a row about a guy trying to rescue a princess by performing impossible tasks, but the princess does it all for him with magic, or about tailors coercing princesses into marrying them, or about how blissfully stupid guys named Hans are. There are a lot of good stories, a few great stories, a few very weird and silly stories, and a lot of forgettable ones. I'm glad I've read it all but again, I'd recommend it as a reference rather than a straight-up read.

Tuck

Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales

Amanda Wells

What a fun trip down memory lane, reading these translated stories. I love how some are totally differnt to how I was told them as a child, and others are just slightly "messier" than how I was told them.

Jade Flynn

Favorites: Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Prince, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Little Red-Cap, Rumpelstiltskin, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs & Snow-White and Rose-Red.

karissa🌙

The Brothers Grimm

In this new edition of more than 200 tales, readers will find all their old favorites - The Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and others - and many little-known treasures such as The Juniper Tree, Clever Gretel, King Thrushbeard, and The Singing, Soaring Lark. Enter this world of magic, myth and enchantment and you will want to return to it again and again.

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

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