Grimm's Fairy Stories by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Fiction, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology (Paperback)

from Barb_H

Enjoyed reading where some popular fairy tales originated and seeing how similar or different they are with the versions I am more familiar with. I liked some of the stories, some were just okay and some were dumb and boring. I was surprised how dark some of the stories are. Overall I am glad I r...

from jmkemp

Interesting to see the originals that Disney worked their magic on. There's a similarity across some of the stories where you can see that perhaps they are mutated versions of the same original that have morphed as they were told. Also there are a number of fairy stories that I hadn't heard befor...

from Helen.Callaghan

More repetitive and not as dark as I expected - perhaps I had the bowdlerised version?

from kprinc3

No one, in my opinion tells a better fairy tale then the Grimm brothers. The collection of stories in this book included "The Goose-Girl," "Hansel and Grethel," "Little Snow White," "Cinderella," "Bearskin," "Briar Rose," "Rapunzel," "Rumpelstiltskin," and many others. Each of these stories had t...