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Children's stories, German -- Translations into English

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• Children's stories, German
• German fiction -- Translations into English

• Fairy Tales, by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, trans. by Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes (Gutenberg text)
• The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (some plates missing; New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1909), by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, trans. by Mrs. Edgar Lucas, illust. by Arthur Rackham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Household Stories, From the Collection of the Bros. Grimm (this edition first published 1886), by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, trans. by Lucy Crane, illust. by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• German Romance: Translated From the German, With Biographical and Critical Notices (two volumes; Boston: Dana Estes and Co., n.d.), by Thomas Carlyle, contrib. by Johann Karl August Musäus, Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué, Ludwig Tieck, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Jean Paul
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations (3 volumes; London: Printed for W. Simpkin et al., 1823), contrib. by Johann Karl August Musäus, Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué, and Ludwig Tieck
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• Tales From the German, Comprising Specimens From the Most Celebrated Authors (London: Chapman and Hall, 1844), trans. by John Oxenford and C. A. Feiling, contrib. by Johann Karl August Musäus, Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm Hauff, Karl Leberecht Immermann, C. F. van der Velde, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Heinrich von Kleist, Ludwig Tieck, Jean Paul, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Adam Oehlenschläger, and Heinrich Zschokke
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Nell in Bridewell (Lenchen im Zuchthause): Description of the System of Corporal Punishment (Flagellation) in the Female Prisons of South Germany Up to the Year 1848 (Paris: Society of British Bibliophiles, 1900), by W. Reinhard, trans. by W. C. Costello and A. R. Allinson
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Terrible Tales, German (Paris et al.: Brentano's, ca. 1891) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Stories By Foreign Authors: German, contrib. by Paul Heyse, Rudolf Lindau, Leopold Sacher-Masoch, Rudolf Baumbach, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Heinrich Zschokke, Berthold Auerbach, Leopold Kompert, Wilhelm Hauff, and Adelbert von Chamisso
  • first volume; Gutenberg text
  • second volume; Gutenberg text

• Men in War, by Andreas Latzko (Gutenberg text)