Complete and unabridged, with 97 full-page plates by Jacob van Ruisdael, Wilhelm Leibl and Jan Nowopacký. The household tales of the brothers Grimm in a selection made for young readers, based on Margaret Hunt's translation and set back into plainer English wherever her wording grew stiff: the frog-king, Hansel and Grethel, Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, the Bremen town-musicians, Snow-white and Rose-red. The brothers set out to collect the stories German country people told, not to write for children, and the old harshness is left in — wolves are cut open, stepmothers dance in red-hot shoes. Ninety-seven plates of painting, from a farmhouse interior to an old man with his pipe watching a town at sunset, carry the homely old-world temper of these tales, with work by Carl Spitzweg and David Teniers the Younger among the rest.