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Featuring 211 classic tales from the Brothers Grimm, including favourites such as "Hansel and Gretel," "Cinderella," "The Frog Prince," "Rapunzel," "Snow White," and "Rumpelstiltskin," The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales is accompanied by 40 colour plates and 60 black-and-white illustrations from award-winning English illustrator Arthur Rackham, whose books and prints are now highly sought-after collectibles
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The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm is fantastic collection of stories, decorated with Arthur Rackham's splendid illustrations. Included, are such well-known and loved stories as 'Briar Rose', 'The Frog Prince', 'Rapunzel', 'The Valiant Little Tailor', 'Hansel and Gretel', 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'The Robber Bridegroom', 'Tom Thumb', 'Aschenputtel', and many more.
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In "Rumpelstiltskin" a miller's careless boast that his clever daughter can "spin gold from straw" is forced by the king to make good on this claim. A little man arrives to help the miller's daughter in exchange for her firstborn child. When the daughter, who by now is the queen, gives birth to a child, the little man comes to collect. He agrees to release the queen from her promise if she can learn the imp's name. According to researchers at Durham...
5) Snow White
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Now, when poor Snow White found herself alone in the big forest, she didn't know which way to turn, but she knew that she must run as far from the queen as she could go. There were so many strange noises in the forest--and the towering dark trees and their looming shadows looked fierce and ominous. She felt so frightened that she didn't know what to do, but she ran like the wind over sharp stones and through bramble bushes and across mountains. Sometimes...
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In The Elves and the Shoemaker a poor shoemaker prepares his last piece of leather to work on before turning in for bed. In the morning, he is amazed to find the shoes already made. Selling these to a grateful customer, his financial obligations are met and he is able to buy more leather for two more pairs. When these are completed overnight in a similar fashion he stays awake to solve the mystery. Learning that a team of naked elves are responsible...
9) Rapunzel
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Trapped at the top of a tall tower, every day Rapunzel throws down her long, long golden hair for the enchantress to climb. Until one day a stranger climbs up-the King's son! Rapunzel and the prince plan to escape. Can they live happily ever after?
11) The goose girl
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On her way to marry a distant prince, a young princess is forced to trade places with her evil waiting-maid and becomes a goose girl instead of a bride when she reaches her destination.
14) The star child
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c2010
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The story of a young girl whose only belongings are the clothes on her back and a piece of bread and in an act of love she gives away the little she has.
20) Fairy tales
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"Transport yourself to a world of fantasy and magic, villainy and heroism, and stories that will enchant children and adults alike with Grimm's Fairy Tales. This classic collection contains the stories of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, German storytellers whose fairy tales have been the inspiration for film, television, and literature for nearly two centuries. This collection of includes popular classics like "Hansel and Gretel," "The Elves and the Shoemaker,"...
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