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Also Known As	Kunstmärchen • magic tale • wonder tale • art fairy tale

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Key People

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Andersen, Hans Christian

Hans Christian Andersen

Danish author

E.T.A. Hoffmann

German writer, composer, and painter

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

Wilhelm Carl Grimm

German author, folklorist, and philologist

Chamisso, detail of an engraving by X. Steifensand after a drawing by D. Weiss

Adelbert von Chamisso

German-language lyricist

Giambattista Basile

Italian author

Drachmann

Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann

Danish author

Perrault, Charles

Charles Perrault

French author

Clemens Brentano, detail of an etching by Ludwig Grimm, 1837

Clemens Brentano

German author

Andrew Lang

British scholar

Fouqué

Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué

German writer

L. Frank Baum, c. 1908

L. Frank Baum

American author

Frederik Willem van Eeden

Dutch author and physician

Countess d'Aulnoy, detail of an engraving by Basan after a painting by Élisabeth Chéron

Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, countess d’Aulnoy

French author

James Stephens, 1925

James Stephens

Irish writer

Jonas Lie, engraving

Jonas Lie

Norwegian author

Angela Carter

British author

Howard Pyle

American writer and illustrator

Hauff, engraving by Johann Wolfle

Wilhelm Hauff

German writer

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Red Riding Hood and the Wolf from "Journeys through Bookland" by Charles Herbert Sylvester, 1922. (Brothers Grimm, Little Red Riding Hood, fairy tales)

Grimm’s Fairy Tales Quiz