The Complete Fairy Tales

It is hardly too much to say that these tales rank next to the Bible in importance

W.H. Auden

The stories, and the figures themselves, have immense vitality, partly because no punches are pulled, and also because no emotion is unrepresented

Margaret Atwood

Everyone should possess and know Grimm's Fairy Tales - one of the great books of the world

Richard Adams, New York Times Book Review

Clearly the text of choice for any reader...Zipes' edition deserves to become the standard translation

German Quarterly

The Brother's Grimm were responsible for these fairytales that informed my life and made it as interesting, or as confused, or as wondrous as it is...they scared the shit out of me when I was a kid and they also gave me some of the most pleasure in life

Terry Gilliam

All demand to be read in translation of the originals and not sanitized retellings. Here, by examining letters, journals, annotations and posthumously unavailable papers, Zipes found some hitherto untranslated "ironic and macabre fables, humorous anecdotes, stories about the crusades, Norwegian legend, one 'feminist' tale among other things

Buffalo News