Grimms' Complete Fairy Tales

Wilhelm Grimm (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

388 Seiten

2025 | 25001 A. 1
Seven Books (Verlag)
978-94-038-1310-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales, is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812. Vol. 1 of the first edition contained 86 stories, which were followed by 70 more tales, numbered consecutively, in the 1st edition, Vol. 2, in 1815. By the seventh edition in 1857, the corpus of tales had expanded to 200 tales and 10 "Children's Legends". It is considered the seminal work of Western children's literature and is listed by UNESCO in its Memory of the World Registry.

Autor

Wilhelm Carl Grimm (24 February 1786 - 16 December 1859) was a German author, philologist and anthropologist. He was the younger brother of Jacob Grimm, of the literary duo the Brothers Grimm.Wilhelm was born in February 1786 in Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel. In 1803, he started studying law at the University of Marburg, one year after his brother Jacob started there. The two brothers spent their entire lives close together. In their school days, they had one bed and one table in common; as students, they had two beds and two tables in the same room. They always lived under one roof and had their books and property in common.The Grimms' tomb in BerlinIn 1825, 39-year-old Wilhelm married pharmacist's daughter Henriette Dorothea Wild, also known as Dortchen. Wilhelm's marriage did not change the harmony of the brothers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.06.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 135 x 215 mm
• Gewicht: 524 g
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Vorlesebücher / Märchen
• ISBN-10: 94-038-1310-5 / 9403813105
• ISBN-13: 978-94-038-1310-3 / 9789403813103
• Zustand: Neuware