Household Stories from the Brothers Grimm
Illustrated by Walter Crane
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There are 11 fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm included in this volume: The Rabbit's Bride, Six Soldiers of Fortune, Clever Grethel, The Death of the Hen, Hans in Luck, The Goose Girl, The Raven, The Frog Prince, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats, and Faithful John. There are also more than 20 intricate illustrations by Golden Age illustrator Walter Crane.
In the Preface to the Second Edition (1819) of the Fairy Tales they so painstakingly collected, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm (the Brothers Grimm) wrote:
Where they still exist, they live, so that no one thinks about whether they are good or bad, if they are poetic or in poor taste for intelligent people. One knows them and loves them because that is the way they were learned, and one delights in them without any specific reason. So splendid is the living custom – indeed, poetry shares with all things enduring that one is drawn to it even against one's own will . . . . In the same way, we do not want to praise these fairy tales nor even defend them against other opinions. Their mere being is sufficient to protect them. Whatever delights again and again, whatever moves and instructs, carries its own necessity in itself and has certainly emerged from that eternal source which covers all living things with dew, and even if it were but a single drop caught by a small leaf it would nonetheless shine in the dawn's first light . . . .
It was our aim that the poetry itself – alive within the tales – would have an influence and delight whom it can, that it could thus serve as an educational tool.
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