The Essential Grimm's Fairy Tales

Hardback Published on: 10/04/2025
Price: €21.00
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Synopsis

Delight in the fantasy world of The Brothers Grimm with these 59 of their best-loved bedtime stories for children (and adults!) worldwide, in an elegantly designed hardcover edition.

Originally collected by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, these German linguists and cultural researchers gathered legendary folklore and aimed to share the stories exactly as they heard them. The Essential Grimm’s Fairy Talesfeatures all of your favorite tales, including:

  • Cinderella
  • Rapunzel
  • Hansel and Gretel
  • Snow White
  • Rumpelstiltskin
  • Little Red Riding Hood
  • The Golden Goose

This handsomely designed faux-leather and foil-embossed hardcover edition features an introduction by fantasy literature scholar Lori Campbell, a timeline of the life and times of the Brothers Grimm, and more than 100 illustrations by Arthur Rackham. This gorgeous, heirloom-quality collection is an ideal edition for classic book lovers to acquire for their home library.

Essential volumes for the shelves of every classic literature lover, these deluxe classics editions include beautifully presented works from some of the most important authors in literary history. Other deluxe classics from Chartwell include Little Women, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Frankenstein, Anne of Green Gables, The Inferno, Dracula, The Republic, The Iliad, Meditations, and Irish Fairy and Folk Tales.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
  • ISBN: 9780785846208
  • Number of pages: 384
  • Dimensions: 191 x 146 mm
  • Weight: 812g
  • Languages: English