All the world knows The household tales of the Brothers Grimm, but their companion work on supernatural and historical legends is for the first time rendered into English in the present edition. Donald Ward has not only translated the 585 legend-tales with fluency and fidelity, but he has also greatly enriched the original collection with informative historical and bibliographical commentaries on each legend and a masterful epilogue that relates The German legends to the full intellectual careers of the Brothers Grimm--Jacket.