If it weren’t for Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, these tales might not have survived in the way we know them today. While the origins of these folk tales predate the brothers by centuries, they were ...

The folklorists’ fairy tales, in which moral laws are suspended and violence abounds, were no stranger than the progressive ...

On any list of the world’s most translated books, you are likely to find the Bible, “The Communist Manifesto” — and a ...

Jacob Grimm, like many others, had difficulties to contend with in the outset of his career. When he commenced the profession of authorship, Augustus William Schlegel looked upon ancient German ...

Widely known for their valiant acts of supernatural bravado, the bogus ghost-busters, Wilhelm and Jacob, or the Brothers Grimm, try their best to banish all sorts of evil in early-19th-century ...

As Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm collected Germanic folktales in the 19th century, they realized that many were similar to stories told in distant parts of the world. The brothers Grimm wondered whether ...

This week the story of an anxious hedgehog and a biography of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm captured critics’ attention. The Life of Herod the Great (HQ), the final unfinished novel by the late Zora ...

The fictionalized lives of the story-telling Grimm brothers are brought to life in this all-star fantasy film. In the early nineteenth century, the brothers Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm are ...