Books with author Wilhelm K. Grimm

A lonely couple, who wants a child, lives next to a walled garden belonging to an evil witch named Dame Gothel. The wife, experiencing the cravings associated with the arrival of her long-awaited pregnancy, notices some rapunzel, growing in the garden and longs for it, desperate to the point of death. One night, her husband breaks into the garden to get some for her. She makes a salad out of it and greedily eats it. It tastes so good that she longs for more. So her husband goes to get some more for her. As he scales the wall to return home, Dame Gothel catches him and accuses him of theft. He begs for mercy, and she agrees to be lenient, and allows him to take all the rapunzel he wants, on condition that the baby be given to her when it's born. Desperate, he agrees. When his wife has a baby girl, Dame Gothel takes her to raise as her own and names her Rapunzel after the plant her mother craved. She grows up to be the most beautiful child in the world with long golden hair. When she turns twelve, Dame Gothel locks her up inside a tower in the middle of the woods, with neither stairs nor a door, and only one room and one window. In order to visit Rapunzel, Dame Gothel stands beneath the tower and calls out: Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair, so that I may climb thy golden stair.

Grimm’s Fairy Tales is a collection of German fairy tales first published in 1812 by the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm. They were among the best-known storytellers of folk tales, and popularized stories such as The Frog Prince, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Little Red Riding Hood, and Snow White. The influence of these fairy tales was widespread. W. H. Auden praised the collection as one of the founding works of Western culture.The popularity of the Grimms’ folk tales has endured well. The tales are available in more than 100 languages and have been later adapted by Walt Disney, with films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Tangled.This cloth-bound book includes a Victorian inspired dust-jacket, and is limited to 100 copies.

This edition contains the English translation and the original text in German. "Cinderella", or "The Little Glass Slipper" (French: "Cendrillon, ou La petite Pantoufle de Verre", Italian: "Cenerentola", German: "Aschenputtel"), is a European folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression in "Histoires ou contes du temps passé" published by Charles Perrault in 1697, and by the Brothers Grimm in their folk tale collection "Grimms' Fairy Tales". Although both the story's title and the character's name change in different languages, in English-language folklore "Cinderella" is the archetypal name. The word "Cinderella" has, by analogy, come to mean one whose attributes were unrecognized, or one who unexpectedly achieves recognition or success after a period of obscurity and neglect. The still-popular story of "Cinderella" continues to influence popular culture internationally, lending plot elements, allusions, and tropes to a wide variety of media. The Aarne–Thompson system classifies Cinderella as "the persecuted heroine". The story of Rhodopis about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt is considered the earliest known variant of the "Cinderella" story and many variants are known throughout the world. "Aschenputtel" (bei Bechstein "Aschenbrödel") ist eine im europäischen Kulturraum weit verbreitete Märchenfigur, die im deutschsprachigen Raum vor allem durch die Märchensammlung der Brüder Grimm in Erinnerung geblieben ist. Das Märchen gehört zu Märchentyp 510a nach Aarne und Thompson. Es steht in den Kinder und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm an Stelle 21 (KHM 21) und geht durch mündliche Weitergabe auf Charles Perraults "Cendrillon ou la Petite Pantoufle de verre" ("Aschenputtel oder der kleine Glasschuh") von 1697 zurück. Ludwig Bechstein übernahm es in sein Deutsches Märchenbuch als "Aschenbrödel" (1845 Nr. 70, 1853 Nr. 62). Perraults Fassung mit den in Apfelschimmel verwandelten Mäusen und dem Kürbis, der mit Hilfe der Fee zur Kutsche wird, prägte maßgeblich Walt Disneys Zeichentrickfilm "Cinderella" von 1950.