Simpleton's generosity helps him gain a princess for his bride.

More than 200 tales by the Brothers Grimm.

A little girl meets a wolf in the forest on her way to visit her grandmother. Includes another version of the tale by Charles Perrault pasted onto endpapers, and notes on the illustrations and translations.

A beautiful girl with extraordinarily long golden hair is imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.

They are the stories we've known since we were children. Rapunzel. Hansel and Gretel. Cinderella. Sleeping Beauty. But the works originally collected by the Brothers Grimm in the early 1800s are not necessarily the versions we heard before bedtime. They're darker and often don't end very happily--but they're often far more interesting. --from publisher description

Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony.