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The Three Green Twigs is a German fairy tale collected by German brothers, academics, linguists, and cultural researchers Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm under number 206 in Grimm's Fairy Tales. They were among the best-known storytellers of folk tales, and popularized stories such as "Cinderella",...

Brothers Grimm are esteemed as collectors of fairy tales. Meanwhile their activity covered different areas - the Scandinavian mythology and history of the right, collecting of the German folklore. The brothers published many compositions, and their collection "Children's and Household Tales"...

Brothers Grimm were born in Giessen: Jacob - on January 4, 1785, Wilhelm - on February 24, 1786. Since 1804 brothers have became interested in fairy tales and folklore. "Clever Elsie" is a fairy tale by brothers Grimm. A man wanted to give his daughter who was called Clever Elsie in marriage....

Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm started to write fairy tales in 1807 while traveling in Hessia and Westphalia. Their first collection of fairy tales was published in 1812. Brothers Grimm's works had a huge influence on further development of the genre. Their tales are appreciated by children all...

The influence of these stories is everlasting. W. H. Auden praised the collection, during World War II, as one of the founding works of Western culture.

Seven years ago, reeling from a curse in the wake of battle, Gael sought sanctuary and found it in a most perilous place. The citadel of a troll warlord—haunt of the desperate and violent—proves a harsh refuge for a civilized mage. But Gael wields power enough to create an oasis of order...

If only Mama were well. If only Papa were . . . not like this. Clary needs a miracle, but wonders rarely step forth to solve life's problems. While her mama lies wearily abed and her papa spends the day . . . elsewhere, Clary struggles to look after her younger sister and their baby brother....

Young Remeya—fosterling and maid-in-waiting to King Xavo's sister—worships the old and forbidden horned god alongside the princess. A worship made taboo half a millennium ago. Performed still in secret by a few. Quietly tolerated by the king. Until madness took him, there beside...

The Juniper Tree is a German fairy tale that contains themes of child abuse, murder and cannibalism and is one of the Brothers Grimm's darker and more mature fairy tales. In it, a boy is murdered and made into a stew by his evil stepmother, who buries his bones beneath a juniper tree outside their...

Die besten und beliebtesten Originaltexte aus der Sammlung der Gebrüder Grimm, mit den klassischen, durchgehend farbigen Illustrationen u. a. von Alexander Zick, Anne Anderson, Carl Offterdinger, Arthur Rackham. Die Rechtschreibung wurde auf den heutigen Stand gebracht. Enthalten sind die berühmtesten,...

„Es wird dem Menschen von Heimats wegen ein guter Engel beigegeben, der ihn, wann er ins Leben auszieht, unter der vertraulichen Gestalt eines Mitwandernden begleitet; wer nicht ahnt, was ihm Gutes dadurch widerfährt, der mag es fühlen, wenn er die Grenze des Vaterlandes überschreitet, wo ihn...

Eine deutsch- und englischsprachige Sammlung der beliebtesten Märchen der Brüder Grimm - sorgfältig und liebevoll editiert. Für ein ungetrübtes Lesevergnügen und ein korrektes Leselernen junger Märchenfans wurden die Texte den aktuellen Rechtschreibregeln angepasst. Eine Einführung erläutert...

Die 'Deutschen Sagen' sind nach den berühmten 'Kinder- und Hausmärchen' das zweite große Sammelwerk der Brüder Grimm und gelten als die bedeutendste Zusammenstellung ihrer Art. Ob Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Heinrich der Löwe oder der Sängerkrieg auf der Wartburg, ob die Geschichten vom tausendjährigen...

Die besten und beliebtesten Märchen für Kinder und Erwachsene. Die berühmten Volksmärchen der Gebrüder Grimm sind ebenso in dem Band versammelt wie die Kunstmärchen von Hans Christian Andersen. Von Rotkäppchen über Aschenputtel bis zu der Prinzessin auf der Erbse. Mit vielen, teils farbigen...