HANSEL AND GRETEL



Authors:


Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob Grimm

First edition:


Hansel und Gretel, 1812

Main illustrators:


Bertall Browne Crane Cruikshank Dargent Doré Mussino Nielsen Pocci Rackham Zwerger



In short:


Hansel and Gretel get into the forest to pick up strawberries. But night comes and they fall sleep. But when they wake up the following day, they soon realise that they are by a chocolate and nuts castle. There a wicked witch lives and takes them prisonners in order to eat them. Eventually, when they were at the point of beeing boiled, Gretel manages to throw the witch into the fire.



Selection of edition:


German popular Stories, illustrated by George Cruikshank, Baldwin, 1823.
Fairy Ring, illustrated by Richard Doyle, Murray, 1849.
Hansel and Gretel, illustrated by Barbara Cooney, Grumhold Collection.
Contes, illustrated by Bertall, Hachette, 40 ill.
Household stories, illustrated by Walter Crane, Macmillan, 1882.
Contes, illustrated by Gordon Browne, 1894.
Frau Holle und andere Maärchen, illustrated by Erich Kuithan.
Fiabe, illustrated by Attilio Mussino.
Contes, illustrated by Franz Graf von Pocci.
Hansel et Gretel, illustrated by L. Zwerger, Casterman, 1990.
Contes de Grimm, illustrated by Elzbieta Gandasinska, préface by Marc Soriano, Grasset, 1994.