Students of language and legend, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm made a permanent mark on history when they gathered their compendium ...

The most translated German book is not by Goethe ... The folk tales collected and edited in the 1810s by Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) were ammunition for a culture war.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein might be the most faithful movie adaptation of the novel… yet it’s far from the best.

She stopped answering, but that wasn’t enough to escape her financial anxiety. She entered an inpatient therapy program in large part because of the stress, which compounded her debts further. (Alexza ...

Military musicians returning from the Napoleonic wars established Britain's first brass bands earlier than previously thought ...

Military musicians returning from the Napoleonic wars established Britain’s first brass bands earlier than previously thought ...

Military musicians returning from the Napoleonic wars invented Britain’s first brass bands earlier than previously thought ...

Research reveals that Britain’s earliest brass bands were established by military musicians returning from the Napoleonic Wars in the 1810s, debunking the idea that they were solely civilian and ...

Ghosts have been reported here as early as the 1810s when Mary Bowen, the daughter of Stephen Jumel ... The ghost of Washington Irving, the author of the famous “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” book, can ...

Folk tales and beloved characters from cultures around the globe can are celebrated in popular books for young readers. Test your knowledge of them with this short quiz. The celebrity chef’s ...