The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his two children. The boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel. He had little to bite…

One summer’s morning a little tailor was sitting on his table by the window; he was in good spirits, and sewed with all his might. Then came a peasant woman…

There was once a forester who went into the forest to hunt, and as he entered it he heard a sound of screaming as if a little child were there.…

There were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child. At length the woman hoped that God was about to grant her desire.…