The Brothers Grimm's collected German folk tales — Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, and dozens more — in their often dark early forms. The wellspring of the European fairy tale.
Books that mention Grimms' Fairy Tales (4)
Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton: “Any one can see it who will simply read "Grimm's Fairy Tales" or the fine collections of Mr. Andrew Lang.”
How to Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis: “As a girl, I had thought of myself as being, like Catherine Morland in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, ‘in training for a heroine’, an activity I thought both important and worthwhile.”
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A. S. Byatt: “than the hectic one of the wishes granted by Grimm’s flounder, or even Aladdin’s djinn.”
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson: “I found there _Pilgrim's Progress_, Peter Parley's _History of the United States_, Grimm's _Household Stories, Tales of a Grandfather_”