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

As payment for retrieving the princess's ball, the frog exacts a promise which the princess is reluctant to fulfill.

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 strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin gold from straw after extracting from her the promise he will be given her first-born child.

More than 200 tales by the Brothers Grimm.

A tailor who kills seven flies with one blow outwits the king and earns half his kingdom and his daughter's hand in marriage.

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

"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 two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in...