“Hansel and Gretel” is one of the Grimm brothers’ fairy tales that has become world famous. Courtesy illustration “The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition,” ...

A copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales once owned by Anne and Margot Frank, their names inscribed atop the title page, sold at auction Thursday for $62,500 (including the buyer's premium). The New York ...

“The best single description I know of the world of the fairy tale is that of Max Lüthi who describes it as an abstract world, full of discrete, interchangeable people, objects and incidents, all of ...

This week’s book was none other than the foundational stepping stone to our childhood movies: “Grimm’s Fairy Tales.” Just 213 years before the live-action Snow White, starring Rachel Zegler, hit ...

Translators of fairy-tale collections have always played fast and loose with the rules of their craft. The “television and pornography” of an earlier age (as John Updike tells us), fairy tales ...

Anne Frank was an avid storyteller whose childhood diary has captivated people all around the world. While her diary is housed at a memorial in Amsterdam, admirers of Frank will soon be able to bid on ...