Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of the Brothers Grimm

Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of the Brothers Grimm by Grimm and GrimmAuthor: Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859,Language: English, Class: PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres, Release Date: May 14, 2019

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This file is itself an index page of the Brothers Grimm works in Project Gutenberg, not the body of a fairy-tale collection. Its core value lies in serving as a navigation aid for digital resources: it gathers electronic texts related to the Brothers Grimm scattered across Project Gutenberg under their titles, making it easy for readers to find what they need. For readers studying the textual history of Grimms' fairy tales, the cataloging methods of early e-books, or those who want to systematically search Grimm resources within Project Gutenberg, this index offers a clear entry point. When reading, note that it serves only as a table of contents and contains no actual story content, so it is better used as a reference document than read from cover to cover as a book. It also reflects, indirectly, the history of Project Gutenberg's free e-book endeavor since 1971, giving it a degree of documentary and reference value.

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Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859 Author

Wilhelm Grimm (Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859) was a German philologist and collector of folk tales, best known today for the fairy-tale collections he compiled with his brother Jacob Grimm. The library holds fourteen related works, including Grimm's Fairy Tales, Household Tales by Brothers Grimm, Snowdrop & Other Tales, and translations into Hungarian and Dutch, showing how widely these stories circulated in multiple European languages. These works are largely drawn from oral folk tradition and shaped through editorial retelling; their language is plain and their plots clear, combining fantasy and adventure with a frequent didactic tone. Because public information is limited, biographical details cannot be fully described here, yet the Brothers Grimm's collecting and editing preserved a great many folk tales and carried them around the world, leaving a lasting influence on children's literature and folklore studies.