About this book
First published in 1812, Grimm's Fairy Tales is the definitive anthology of European folk literature, gathering 51 stories collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from German oral tradition. Here are the tales that shaped Western storytelling: a frog prince waiting for a broken promise to be honored, Hansel and Gretel outwitting a cannibalistic witch, Snow-White poisoned by a vain queen, and Rapunzel imprisoned in a tower without doors. Across these pages, the youngest and most despised always rise, promises carry the weight of law, and the dark forest is never merely a forest. Magic rewards the kind and ruins the proud—with an unflinching consistency that feels less like morality and more like gravity.
