"Grimm's Fairy Tales", formerly known in German as "Folktales collected by the Brothers Grimm for children and family reading", is a collection of stories compiled by the brothers Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, who collected historical documents and recorded oral folktales. Like France's "The Little Prince", Britain's "Peter Pan", and Denmark's "Andersen's Fairy Tales" and other representative world literary classics, "Grimm's Fairy Tales" has become the most well-known world literary classic in German literature and has the most translated versions.
On Christmas Day 1812, the Brothers Grimm released the first volume of this set of fairy tales, and the second volume in 1815. Over the next half century, this set of fairy tales has been adapted. The first volume of the first edition contained 86 stories, and the second volume contained 70 stories, for a total of only 156 stories. By the 7th edition in 1857, which was the last revised version before the Brothers Grimm's lifetime, the number of stories had increased to 200, and 10 "Children's Lives of Saints" were added. Most of the most common "Grimm's Fairy Tales" on the market today are translated from the 7th edition.
Since many of the stories in Grimm's fairy tales originated from folklore, a few of the stories collected by the author clearly contain content that is not suitable for children, such as pornography, violence, sexism, and strengthening of patriarchy. For this part of the content, when we translated it based on the original German version, we would rather discard this part of the content without seeking to make it complete, making it a literary classic that is truly suitable for domestic children to read.
