The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales: Volume 5

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales is a truly complete collection of fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm featuring color plates and illustrations from award-winning illustrator, Arthur Rackham.

About the author

Jacob Grimm (1785–1863), one half of of the renowned Brothers Grimm, was a German philologist, jurist, and mythologist. He was also a linguist, and discoverer of "Grimm's law," and wrote several of the West's best known fairy tales along with his brother Wilhelm. He was born in the town of Hanau, in what was at the time the Holy Roman Empire. He was a graduate of the University of Marburg.Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), German author and cultural researcher, was one half of the Grimm Brothers; authors of some of the most popular and best-known European fairy tales. He was born in the town of Hanau, in what was at the time the Holy Roman Empire. He was a graduate of the University of Marburg.

Summary

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales is a truly complete collection of fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm featuring color plates and illustrations from award-winning illustrator, Arthur Rackham.

Additional text

Adults and young readers alike have enjoyed these stories for more than two centuries, and in this volume the 211 classic tales from the German linguists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm include favorites such as “Hansel and Gretel” and “Cinderella,” and are accompanied by 40 color plates and 60 black-and-white illustrations from the English illustrator Arthur Rackham.

Product details

• Authors: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
• Assisted by: Arthur Rackham (Illustration)
• Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.08.2020
• EAN: 9781631067181
• ISBN: 978-1-63106-718-1
• No. of pages: 744
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 39 mm
• Weight: 1278 g
• Illustrations: color illustrations
• Series: Timeless Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Folklore, myths & legends, Myth & legend told as fiction, Classic fiction: literary and general