Kinder‐ und Hausmärchen
Kinder‐ und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales, 1812–15),compiled by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and edited by Wilhelm Grimm, is one of the most influential tale collections in the Western world. Translated into scores of languages, Children's and Household Tales has enriched children's literature world‐wide.
Nearly all of the tales of volume I of the first edition (1812) came from young acquaintances in the Grimms' bourgeois circle in Cassel and nearby towns. Volume II (1815) had a radically different character, its stories stamped by the plots and diction of Dorothea Viehmann, a tailor's widow from the neighbouring village of Zwehrn.
Children's and Household Tales appeared in seven Large (1812–15, 1819, 1837, 1840, 1843, 1850, 1857) and ten 50‐story Small Editions (1825, 1833, 1836, 1839, 1841, 1844, 1847, 1850, 1853, 1858). Often adding new tales from published sources,...
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