"Clearly the text of choice for any reader...Zipes' edition deserves to become the standard translation."
--The German Quarterly
Publisher Web Site, March, 2003
Summary
Perhaps no other stories possess as much power to enchant, delight, and surprise as those penned by the immortal
Brothers Grimm. Now, in the new, expanded third edition, renowned scholar and folklorist Jack Zipes has translated
all 250 tales collected and published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, plus twenty-nine rare tales omitted from the
original German edition, as well as narratives uncovered in the brothers' letters and papers.
Truly the most comprehensive translation to date, this critically acclaimed edition recaptures the fairy tales
as the Brothers Grimm intended them to be: rich, stark, spiced with humor and violence, resonant with folklore
and song.
One of the world's experts on children's literature, Jack Zipes is a professor of German at the University of Minnesota
and is the author of numerous books on folklore and fairy tales.
