Grimm's Fairy Tales

You know these stories. Cinderella. Snow White. Rapunzel. Hansel and Gretel. Rumpelstiltskin. You grew up with them in picture books and Disney films, softened and brightened until the darkness was invisible. The originals are not soft. In the Brothers Grimm version, Cinderella's stepsisters slice off their toes to fit the glass slipper. The wicked queen dances in red-hot iron shoes until she drops dead. The wolf does not survive. This Raven's Gate Classics edition presents sixty-two of the Grimms' tales complete and unaltered, in the classic English translations of Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes. From the famous to the overlooked masterpieces, this is the full range of the Grimms' imagination: funny, violent, strange, and relentlessly honest about human nature. The real fairy tales have teeth. This edition lets them bite.