The Complete Brothers Grimm's Fairy Tales (eBook)

The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), were German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers, and authors who together specialized in collecting and publishing traditional folklore during the 19th century. They are perhaps best known for their collection 'Grimm's Fairy Tales', originally titled 'Kinder- und Hausmärchen' (1812), which has become a cornerstone of Western literature and a foundational text in the folktale canon. This tome, encompassing tales such as 'Cinderella', 'The Frog Prince', and 'Hansel and Gretel', has been translated into over 100 languages and remains a quintessential compilation of fairy tales that influence literature and culture even to this day. The brothers' work was not merely to entertain but to preserve Germanic folklore in a rapidly modernizing world. Their literary style combines the unfiltered characteristics of oral storytelling with a scholarly dedication to preservation, which sometimes evoked the dark and uncensored realities of the tales' origins. The Grimm's literary approach was pioneering, blending raw narrative with linguistic analysis, which in turn greatly contributed to the field of folklore studies and laid the groundwork for the discipline of comparative mythology and folktale classification. 'The Complete Brothers Grimm's Fairy Tales' continues to be celebrated for its rich heritage, academic significance, and the indelible imprint it has left on the fabric of childhood and storytelling across the globe.