Grimm's Fairy Tales

Grimm's Fairy Tales is the common English title for Kinder- und Hausmarchen, Children's and Household Tales, a collection of German folk tales gathered and published by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, first appearing on 20 December 1812. The Grimms compiled the tales chiefly from oral storytellers and printed sources across the German lands, and expanded and revised the collection across seven editions during their lifetimes, growing from 86 stories in the first 1812 volume to around 200 tales plus ten additional children's legends by the final 1857 edition; the collection includes stories that became internationally known in later retellings, among them Cinderella, Snow White, Hansel and Gretel and Rapunzel. Recognized by UNESCO in its Memory of the World Register, the collection is widely regarded as the seminal work of Western children's literature and shaped folklore collection as a scholarly practice across Europe and beyond.