The Complete Grimms Fairy Tales

The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales

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The Three Spinners 83 The Three Snake-Leaves 94 The White Snake 98 The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean The Fisherman and His Wife The Valiant Little Tailor The Riddle The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage Mother Holle The Seven Ravens Little Red-Cap The Bremen Town-Musicians The Singing Bone The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs The Louse and the Flea The Girl Without Hands Clever Hans The Three Languages Clever Elsie The Tailor in Heaven The Wedding of Mrs. The Elves The Robber Bridegroom Herr Korbes The Godfather Frau Trude Godfather Death The Juniper Tree Old Sultan The Six Sons Little Briar-Rose King Thrushbeard Little Snow White The Knapsack, the Hat, and the Horn Sweetheart Roland The Golden Bird The Dog and the Sparrow Frederick and Catherine The Two Brothers The Little Peasant The Queen Bee The Three Feathers The Golden Goose The Twelve Huntsmen The Thief and his Master Jorinda and Joringel The Three Sons of Fortune The Wolf and the Man The Wolf and the Fox Gossip Wolf and the Fox The Fox and the Cat The Pink Clever Gretel The Old Man and his Grandson The Water-Nixie The Death of the Little Hen Brother Lustig Gambling Hansel Hans in Luck Hans Married The Gold-Children The Fox and the Geese The Poor Man and the Rich Man The Singing, Soaring Lark The Goose-Girl The Young Giant The Gnome The King of the Golden Mountain The Raven Old Hildebrand The Three Little Birds The Water of Life Doctor Knowall The Spirit in the Bottle The Willow-Wren and the Bear Sweet Porridge Wise Folks Tales of the Paddock The Two Travelers Hans the Hedgehog The Shroud The Jew Among the Thorns The Skillful Huntsman The Flail from Heaven The Cunning Little Tailor The Bright Sun Brings it to Light The Blue Light The Willful Child The Three Army-Surgeons The Seven Swabians The Three Apprentices Donkey Cabbages The Old Woman in the Wood The Three Brothers The Devil and his Grandmother Ferdinand the Faithful and Ferdinand the Unfaithful The Iron Stove The Lazy Spinner The Four Skillful Brothers Fair Katrinelje and Pif-Paf-Poltrie The Fox and the Horse The Shoes that Were Danced to Pieces The Six Servants Jacob attended the university first and showed proof of his hard work ethic and quick intelligence.

Wilhelm joined Jacob at the university, and Jacob drew the attention of Professor Friedrich Carl von Savigny , founder of its historical school of law. He became a huge personal and professional influence on the brothers.

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Throughout their time at university, the brothers became quite close with Savigny and were able to use his personal library as they became very interested in German law, history, and folklore. Savigny asked Jacob to join him in Paris as an assistant and Jacob went with him for a year.

While he was gone, Wilhelm became very interested in German literature and started collecting books. Once Jacob returned to Kassel in , he decided to quit studying law and instead spent his full efforts on German literature.

While Jacob studied literature and took care of their siblings, Wilhelm received his degree in law at Marburg. In , their mother died and it was hard on Jacob because he took the position in the family as a father figure, while also trying to be a brother.

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From to , the Grimm family had barely enough money to properly feed and clothe themselves. During this time, Jacob and Wilhelm were concerned about the stability of the family. Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano were good friends of the brothers and wanted to publish folk tales, so they asked the brothers to collect oral tales for publication.

The Grimms collected many old books and asked friends and acquaintances in Kassel to tell tales and to gather stories from others.

Jacob and Wilhelm sought to collect these stories in order to write a history of old German Poesie and to preserve history. The first volume of the first edition was published in , containing 86 stories; the second volume of 70 stories followed in For the second edition, two volumes were issued in and a third in , totaling tales. The third edition appeared in ; fourth edition, ; fifth edition, ; sixth edition, ; seventh edition, Stories were added, and also subtracted, from one edition to the next, until the seventh held tales.

All editions were extensively illustrated, first by Philipp Grot Johann and, after his death in , by German illustrator Robert Leinweber.

The first volumes were much criticized because, although they were called "Children's Tales", they were not regarded as suitable for children, both for the scholarly information included and the subject matter. They removed sexual references—such as Rapunzel 's innocently asking why her dress was getting tight around her belly, and thus naively revealing to the witch Dame Gothel her pregnancy and the prince's visits—but, in many respects, violence, particularly when punishing villains, was increased.

After the first book was published in , they began their second volume, German Legends , which was published in This was one year after their publication of the German Legends.

In , the Brothers published their Kleine Ausgabe or "small edition", a selection of 50 tales designed for child readers. This children's version went through ten editions between and However, the brothers and five other professors led a protest against this and were heavily supported by the student body since all of these professors were well renowned.

In Kassel, the Grimms devoted themselves to researching and studying. A close friend of theirs, Bettina von Arnim, was also a talented writer. Savigny and others convinced the King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm IV, to allow the brothers to teach and conduct research at the University of Berlin.

In March , the brothers did just this and also continued to work on the German Dictionary. The Grimms believed that the most natural and pure forms of culture were linguistic and based in history.

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Joseph Jacobs was in part inspired by his complaint that English children did not read English fairy tales; [10] in his own words, "What Perrault began, the Grimms completed". Hitler praised them as folkish tales showing children with sound racial instincts seeking racially pure marriage partners, and so strongly that the Allied forces warned against them; [12] for instance, Cinderella with the heroine as racially pure, the stepmother as an alien, and the prince with an unspoiled instinct being able to distinguish.

The Grimm anthology has been a source of inspiration for artists and composers. Arthur Rackham , Walter Crane and Rie Cramer are among the artists who have created illustrations based on the stories. The titles are those as of Some titles in were different. All editions from until split the stories into two volumes. The children's legends Kinder-legende first appeared in the G.

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