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Grimms' Fairy Tales

By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

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Cover: Hansel and Grethel: the witch at the gingerbread house by Arthur Rackham (1867–1939), dated 1909 · Wikimedia Commons (scanned from Hansel & Grethel & Other Tales, 1920, Internet Archive) · Public domain

Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales, is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812. Vol. 1 of the first edition contained 86 stories, which were followed by 70 more tales, numbered consecutively, in the 1st edition, Vol. 2, in 1815. By the seventh edition in 1857, the corpus of tales had expanded to 200 tales and 10 "Children's Legends". It is considered the seminal work of Western children's literature and is listed by UNESCO in its Memory of the World Register.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: The Golden Bird
  2. 2: Hans in Luck
  3. 3: Jorinda and Jorindel
  4. 4: The Travelling Musicians
  5. 5: Old Sultan
  6. 6: The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean
  7. 7: Briar Rose
  8. 8: The Dog and the Sparrow
  9. 9: The Twelve Dancing Princesses
  10. 10: The Fisherman and His Wife
  11. 11: The Willow-Wren and the Bear
  12. 12: The Frog-Prince
  13. 13: Cat and Mouse in Partnership
  14. 14: The Goose-Girl
  15. 15: The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet
  16. 16: Rapunzel
  17. 17: Fundevogel
  18. 18: The Valiant Little Tailor
  19. 19: Hansel and Gretel
  20. 20: The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage
  21. 21: Mother Holle
  22. 22: The Robber Bridegroom
  23. 23: Tom Thumb
  24. 24: Rumpelstiltskin
  25. 25: Clever Gretel
  26. 26: The Old Man and His Grandson
  27. 27: The Little Peasant
  28. 28: Frederick and Catherine
  29. 29: Sweetheart Roland
  30. 30: Snowdrop
  31. 31: The Pink
  32. 32: Clever Elsie
  33. 33: The Miser in the Bush
  34. 34: Ashputtel
  35. 35: The White Snake
  36. 36: The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids
  37. 37: The Queen Bee
  38. 38: The Elves and the Shoemaker
  39. 39: The Juniper-Tree
  40. 40: The Turnip
  41. 41: Clever Hans
  42. 42: The Three Languages
  43. 43: The Fox and the Cat
  44. 44: The Four Clever Brothers
  45. 45: Lily and the Lion
  46. 46: The Fox and the Horse
  47. 47: The Blue Light
  48. 48: The Raven
  49. 49: The Golden Goose
  50. 50: The Water of Life
  51. 51: The Twelve Huntsmen
  52. 52: The King of the Golden Mountain
  53. 53: Doctor Knowall
  54. 54: The Seven Ravens
  55. 55: First Story
  56. 56: Second Story
  57. 57: The Salad
  58. 58: The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was
  59. 59: King Grisly-Beard
  60. 60: Iron Hans
  61. 61: Cat-Skin
  62. 62: Snow-White and Rose-Red