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Grimms' Fairy Tales
Hardcover
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515427780
Publisher: Smk Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 230
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Grimms' Fairy Tales is one of the foundational collections of European folklore and classic children's literature, bringing together the stories of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in an enduring literary form. Gathered from oral tradition, earlier printed sources, and the cultural memory of German-speaking Europe, these tales include the patterns that shaped generations of storytelling: lost children, enchanted forests, cruel stepmothers, talking animals, magical helpers, impossible tasks, wicked bargains, and hard-won transformations.
First published in the early nineteenth century as Children's and Household Tales, the Grimms' collection grew across successive editions and became one of the most influential works in the history of fairy tales. Its stories are not merely gentle nursery pieces; they preserve danger, hunger, fear, justice, punishment, cunning, endurance, and wonder. That mixture of darkness and enchantment is precisely why the tales have remained central to children's reading, folklore studies, fantasy literature, and the wider imagination of Western storytelling.
For readers of classic children's literature, fairy tales, folklore, mythology, and traditional stories, Grimms' Fairy Tales remains essential: strange, memorable, morally charged, and endlessly retold.
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