Grimms' Fairy Tales

Grimms' Fairy Tales

Title page of first volume of Grimms' Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1819) 2nd ed.
Author	Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Original title	Kinder- und Hausmärchen (lit. Children's and Household Tales)
Country	Germany
Language	German
Genre	Fairy tale Folklore
Published	1812–1858
Text	Grimms' Fairy Tales at Wikisource

Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen, pronounced [ˌkɪndɐ ʔʊnt ˈhaʊsmɛːɐ̯çən], commonly abbreviated as KHM), is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812. Vol. 1 of the first edition contained 86 stories, which were followed by 70 more tales, numbered consecutively, in the 1st edition, Vol. 2, in 1815. By the seventh edition in 1857, the corpus of tales had expanded to 200 tales and 10 "Children's Legends". It is listed by UNESCO in its Memory of the World Registry.