Household Tales
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The complete Grimm collection in Margaret Hunt's translation, with more than two hundred tales including the originals of Cinderella, Rapunzel and Hansel and Gretel. Darker and stranger than the versions most people grew up with.
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