HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The wolf thought to himself, "What a tender young creature! what a nice plump mouthful - she will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both."' Collected by the German Grimm brothers, these folk tales have captured the imaginations of children and adults alike since they were first published in 1812. The best-known stories such as The Golden Goose, Hansel and Gretel, The Frog Prince, and Snow-White and Rose-Red remain as popular today as when first told, although there is an underlying darkness and violence to the original stories that has softened over time.
George Cruikshank Book order (chronological)
George Cruikshank
- 247 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Oliver Twist
- 490 pages
- 18 hours of reading
A poor orphan's adventures in the criminal underworld of mid-nineteenth-century London are the central theme of Dickens' second major novel
The Indignant Eye
The Artist as Social Critic in Prints and Drawings from the Fifteenth Century to Picasso
- 470 pages
- 17 hours of reading
Book by Shikes, Ralph E