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When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in content and style. These narrative gems, brought together in one beautiful book accompanied by sumptuous illustrations from artist Arthur Rackham.From "The Frog King" to "The Golden Key," wondrous worlds unfold—heroes and heroines are rewarded, weaker animals triumph over the strong, and simple bumpkins prove themselves not so simple after all. A delight to read, "The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm" presents these timeless stories to a whole new generation of readers.

Example in this ebookCHAPTER IAll her life Miss Elizabeth Dwarris had been a sore trial to her relations. A woman of means, she ruled tyrannously over a large number of impecunious cousins, using her bank-balance like the scorpions of Rehoboam to chastise them, and, like many another pious creature, for their soul’s good making all and sundry excessively miserable. Nurtured in the evangelical ways current in her youth, she insisted that her connections should seek salvation according to her own lights; and, with harsh tongue and with bitter gibe, made it her constant business to persuade them of their extreme unworthiness. She arranged lives as she thought fit, and ventured not only to order the costume and habits, but even the inner thought of those about her: the Last Judgment could have no terrors for any that had faced her searching examination. She invited to stay with her in succession various poor ladies who presumed on a distant tie to call her Aunt Eliza, and they accepted her summons, more imperious than a royal command, with gratitude by no means unmixed with fear, bearing the servitude meekly as a cross which in the future would meet due testamentary reward.Miss Dwarris loved to feel her power. During these long visits—for, in a way, the old lady was very hospitable—she made it her especial object to break the spirit of her guests; and it entertained her hugely to see the mildness with which were borne her extravagant demands, the humility with which every inclination was crushed. She took a malicious pleasure in publicly affronting persons, ostensibly to bend a sinful pride, or in obliging them to do things which they particularly disliked. With a singular quickness for discovering the points on which they were most sensitive, she attacked every weakness with blind invective till the sufferer writhed before her, raw and bleeding: no defect, physical or mental, was protected from her raillery, and she could pardon as little an excess of avoirdupois as a want of memory. Yet, with all her heart, she despised her victims, she flung in their face insolently their mercenary spirit, vowing that she would never leave a penny to such a pack of weak fools; it delighted her to ask for advice in the distribution of her property among charitable societies, and she heard, with unconcealed hilarity, their unwilling and confused suggestions.With one of her relations only, Miss Dwarris found it needful to observe a certain restraint, for Miss Ley, perhaps the most distant of her cousins, was as plain-spoken as herself, and had, besides, a far keener wit whereby she could turn rash statements to the utter ridicule of the speaker. Nor did Miss Dwarris precisely dislike this independent spirit; she looked upon her in fact with a certain degree of affection and not a little fear. Miss Ley, seldom lacking a repartee, appeared really to enjoy the verbal contests, from which, by her greater urbanity, readiness, and knowledge, she usually emerged victorious: it confounded, but at the same time almost amused, the elder lady that a woman so much poorer than herself, with no smaller claims than others to the coveted inheritance, should venture not only to be facetious at her expense, but even to carry war into her very camp. Miss Ley, really not grieved to find some one to whom without prickings of conscience she could speak her whole mind, took a grim pleasure in pointing out to her cousin the poor logic of her observations or the foolish unreason of her acts. No cherished opinion of Miss Dwarris was safe from satire—even her evangelicism was laughed at, and the rich old woman, unused to argument, was easily driven into self-contradiction; and then—for the victor took no pains to conceal her triumph—she grew pale and speechless with rage.To be continue in this ebook.................................................................................

New York: Doubleday Page & Co. 1904, New York, 1904. Rose Cecil O'Neill (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. In original olive green pictorial cloth case showing grape vine on front cover. And yes, boys and girls, this Rose O'Neill is the same of the Kewpie Doll fame. She was married to Harry Leon Wilson. No dust jacket (as issued ?).

Contents: "The Pied Piper of Hamelin Town" by Sara Cone Bryant (with verses by Robert Browning), illustrated by Lawrence Beall Smith "The Ugly Duckling" by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Barbara Cooney "Yonie Wondernose" written and illustrated by Marguerite de Angeli "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and Other Nonsense Verses" by Edward Lear, illustrated by Paul Galdone "Chicken-Little", illustrated by Leonard Weisgard "We Live in Air" by Gerald S. Craig adn Sara E. Baldwin, illustrated by Joseph Cleary "Little Folk's Party" by Florence Hamsher, illustrated by Luciana Roselli "Kiki Loves Music" written and illustrated by Charlotte Steiner "Dog Friends" (no author noted), color photographs "Benjamin Franklin" (abridged for young people) by James Baldwin, illustrated by Tom O'Sullivan "This Is Mexico" (no author noted), color photographs, illustrated map.