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When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Childrens and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and Cinderella would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in content and style. For the very first time, The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm makes available in English all 156 stories from the 1812 and 1815 editions. These narrative gems, newly translated and brought together in one beautiful book, are accompanied by sumptuous new illustrations from award-winning artist Andrea Dezs.



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Jacob Grimm

German philologist and folklorist in 1822 formulated Grimm's Law, the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother (1786-1859) , he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European shifted to Germanic shifted to , and shifted to . Indo-European shifted to Germanic shifted to , and shifted to . Indo-European shifted to Germanic shifted to , and shifted to This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental and his Adapted from



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