Dewey Decimal398.20943
SynopsisGrimm's Complete Fairy Tales collects more than two hundred tales set down by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early decades of the nineteenth century, among them some of the best-loved and most famous fairy tales in all literature. This edition features ten rarely seen 'Children's Legends' and the full-colour artwork of Arthur Rackham. Tales include 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs', 'Cinderella', 'Sleeping Beauty', 'Rapunzel', 'Rumpelstiltskin', and 'Tom Thumb'. Derived from folk tales that had been part of the oral storytelling tradition for centuries, these stories are acknowledged as literary landmarks that transcend their time and culture., Grimm's Fairy Tales is a collection of German fairy tales first published in 1812 by the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm. The work of the Brothers Grimm influenced other collectors, both inspiring them to collect tales and leading them to similarly believe, in a spirit of romantic nationalism, that the fairy tales of a country were particularly representative of it, to the neglect of cross-cultural influence.