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Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

  • First published 1843
  • 416 pages
  • French
  • Classic
A girl asleep behind thorns a hundred years deep, a boy following breadcrumbs that are already gone, a voice calling let down your hair from a tower with no door. In these forests beggars grant wishes, wolves knock on doors, stepmothers give poisoned apples, and millers' daughters must spin straw into gold by morning. Cinderella flees at midnight, Hansel and Gretel find a house made to be eaten, Snow White bites, Rapunzel waits, Rumpelstiltskin bargains. Poor and scorned, lost and locked away, the young and the kind must answer riddles, keep promises and outwit hunger, envy and magic before the path leads home or disappears for good.
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Readers love the timeless magic and darker originals, but warn tales feel repetitive, dated, and grim.

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Fans of classic fairy talesReaders curious about folklore originsLovers of dark short stories
  • Could be shorter
  • Darker than it looks
  • Differs from the adaptation
  • Feels dated
  • Little new for experts

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This edition
Folio Verlag, 1976
ISBN
9782070368402
Language
French
Original edition Originally published in 1843 · German