Grimm's complete fairy tales

This collection gathers the full body of fairy tales assembled by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from German oral folklore in the early nineteenth century. Many of the stories are familiar in their broad shapes — Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel — but the versions collected here are frequently harsher and stranger than later, sanitized retellings, with punishments, transformations, and endings considerably darker than the versions most readers grew up with.

Read together, the tales offer a window into the folk beliefs and anxieties of the communities that shaped and passed them down before the Grimms wrote them down.