Grimm brothers fairy tales

Collection of German fairy tales

For the comic series, see Grimm Fairy Tales (comics).

Not to be confused with Grimm Tales (disambiguation) or Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics.

Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen, pronounced[ˌkɪndɐʔʊntˈhaʊsmɛːɐ̯çən], commonly abbreviated as KHM), is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December Vol.

1 of the first edition contained 86 stories, which were followed by 70 more tales, numbered consecutively, in the 1st edition, Vol. 2, in By the seventh edition in , the corpus of tales had expanded to tales and 10 "Children's Legends".

It is listed by UNESCO in its Memory of the World Registry.

Origin

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were two of ten children from Dorothea (née Zimmer) and Philipp Wilhelm Grimm. Philipp was a highly regarded district magistrate in Steinau an der