Directory of Brothers Grimm Resources

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Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859), linguists, became famous for their collection of folktales, "Grimm's Fairy Tales". Jacob Grimm also wrote "German Mythology".

Resources in This Category

• Fairy Tales

  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2591
  Based on translations of the Grimms' Kinder- und Hausmärchen by Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes. Available in plain text, TeX, PDF, and as zip files. At Project Gutenberg.

• Fairy Tales by the Grimm Brothers

  http://germanstories.vcu.edu/grimm/grimm_menu.html
  Twenty fairy tales in both German and English, with illustrations from nineteenth-century editions, prepared by Robert Godwin-Jones, Virginia Commonwealth University.

• Grimm Brothers

  http://grimm.thefreelibrary.com/
  Provides tales and a biography of the Grimms.

• Grimm Brothers' Home Page

  http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm.html
  Biographical information, studies of specific tales, electronic tales, and links to more resources.

• Grimm Household Tales

  http://oaks.nvg.org/grimm-tales.html
  Two hundred numbered tales, and ten legends, based on Margaret Hunt's 1884 English translation. Also two other stories collected by the Grimms. AT numbers included in table of contents.

• Grimm's Fairy Tales

  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/
  Two hundred and nine tales based on the translation by Margaret Hunt, called Grimm's Household Tales; available through the Universal Library.

• Grimm's Household Tales

  http://www.northvegr.org/secondary%20sources/folklore%20and%20fairy%20tales/grimms%20household%20tales/index.html
  Complete text of all 200 original tales and 10 supplementary ones in their original order including illustrations, with German and English in parallel texts.

• Grimm's Teutonic Mythology

  http://www.northvegr.org/secondary%20sources/mythology/grimms%20teutonic%20mythology/index.html
  Complete texts of the four volume collection of Germanic mythology compiled by the Grimm Brothers.

• Grimms Fairy Tales

  http://www.familymanagement.com/literacy/grimms/grimms-toc.html
  Two hundred and nine tales, partly based on the translation by Margaret Hunt called "Grimm's Household Tales."

• Household Stories

  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19068
  Lucy Crane translation of fifty-two fairy tales, originally published in 1886. In plain text, or in HTML with illustrations by Walter Crane. From Project Gutenberg.

• Household Tales

  http://www.bartleby.com/17/2/
  Provides the text of 42 folktales from Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.

• Household Tales

  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5314
  Two hundred numbered tales, plus ten children's legends, in Margaret Hunt's 1884 English translation. In PDF, TeX, plain text. From Project Gutenberg.

• The German Fairytale Road

  http://www.bayswaterps.vic.edu.au/lote/maerchen/project.htm
  Märchen of the Month, brief biography of the Grimm Brothers, student projects. Links to activities, exercises, and related pages in English and German.

Other Languages

• Esperanto
• German

 

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