Best Selling Books by Jacob Grimm

Thirty-one folk and fairy tales collected by the Grimm brothers including Rapunzel, Snow White, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, and Hansel and Gretel.

The Brothers Grimm rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. This selection of their folk tales was made and translated by Lucy Crane, and includes firm favourites such as Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Hansel and Greteland Snow White. It is illustrated throughout by Walter Crane''s charming line drawings. Tales Include: The Frog Prince Rapunzel Hansel and Grethel Cinderella Little Red-cap (Little Red Riding Hood) The Bremen Town Musicicians Tom Thumb Tom Thumb''s Travels The Sleeping Beauty Snow-white Rumpelstiltskin

A tailor who kills seven flies with one blow outwits the king and earns half his kingdom and his daughter''s hand in marriage.

Jacob Grimm ( 4th Jan 1785 - 20th Sept 1863) And Wilhelm Grim ( 24th Feb 1786 - 16th Dec 1859), German Brothers Renowned As ''The Grimm Brothers''. They Were German Academic, Authors, Linguists, And Researchers. They Have Many Classic Fairy Stories And Published Them Under The Name Of ''Grimm''s Fairy Tales''. Their Famous Stories Are ''The Golden Bird, Hans In Luck, Jorinda And Jorindel, The Travelling Musicians, Old Sultan, The Straw, The Coal, And The Bean, Briar Rose, The Dog And The Sparrow, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Fisherman And His Wife, The Willow-Wren And The Bear, The Frog-Prince, Cat And Mouse In Partnership, The Goose-Girl, The Adventures Of Chanticleer And Partlet, Rapunzel, Fundevogel, The Valiant Little Tailor, Hansel And Gretel, Mother Holle, Little Red-Cap [Little Red Riding Hood], The Robber Bridegroom, Tom Thumb, Rumpelstiltskin, Clever Gretel, The Old Man And His Grandson, The Little Peasant, Frederick And Catherine, Sweetheart Roland, Snowdrop, The Pink, Lever Elsie, The Miser In The Bush, Ashputtel, The White Snake, The Wolf And The Seven Little Kids.

A little girl walks to the end of the world to find her seven brothers and free them from enchantment.

Not only is Grandmother eaten up in this retelling of the familiar fairy tale, but so is Little Red Riding Hood.

A poor woodcutter''s two children, lost in the woods, come upon a gingerbread house inhabited by a wicked witch.

58 of the most familiar Grimm fairy tales, and three fairy tales by Ludwig Bechstein and one anti-fairy tale by Iring Fetscher.

A man makes his fortune with the help of five men of unusual talents.

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were two of 10 children from their mother Dorothea (née Zimmer) and father Philipp Wilhelm Grimm. Philipp was a highly regarded district magistrate in Steinau an der Straße, about 50 km from Hanau. Jacob and Wilhelm were sent to school for a classical education once they were of age, while their father was working. They were very hard-working pupils throughout their education. They followed in their father''s footsteps and started to pursue a degree in law, and German history. However, in 1796, their father died at the age of 44 from pneumonia. This was a tragic time for the Grimms because the family lost all financial support and relied on their aunt, Henriette Zimmer, and grandfather, Johann Hermann Zimmer. At the age of 11, Jacob was compelled to be head of the household and provide for his family. After downsizing their home because of financial reasons, Henriette sent Jacob and Wilhelm to study at the prestigious high school, Lyzeum, in Kassel. In school, their grandfather wrote to them saying that because of their current situation, they needed to apply themselves industriously to secure their future welfare. Shortly after attending Lyzeum, their grandfather died and they were again left to themselves to support their family in the future. The two became intent on becoming the best students at Lyzeum, since they wanted to live up to their deceased father. They studied more than twelve hours a day and established similar work habits. They also shared the same bed and room at school. After four years of rigorous schooling, Jacob graduated head of his class in 1802. Wilhelm contracted asthma and scarlet fever, which delayed his graduation by one year although he was also head of his class. Both were given special dispensations for studying law at the University of Marburg. They particularly needed this dispensation because their social standing at the time was not high enough to have normal admittance. University of Marburg was a small, 200-person university where most students were more interested in activities other than schooling. Most of the students received stipends even though they were the richest in the state. The Grimms did not receive any stipends because of their social standing; however, they were not upset by it since it kept the distractions away

The fisherman''s greedy wife is never satisfied with the wishes granted to them by an enchanted fish.

When his seven years'' wages in gold prove too heavy to carry easily, Hans trades the lump of gold for one thing after another until he arrives home empty-handed, but convinced he is a lucky man to be unfettered with encumbrances.

Brothers Grimm''s Fairy Tales.

An illustrated collection of twenty-five traditional tales collected by the Grimm brothers.