The primal beating heart at the center of much of the Western literary canon can be found in the folk stories, myths, and fairy tales collected by the amateur folklorists Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm. Surprisingly graphic in comparison to their sanitized twentieth-century retellings, these intense tales
German Popular Tales and Household Storiesby Brothers Grimm
- Book ID
- 123760915
- Publisher
- University of Northern Iowa
- Year
- 1861
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 147 KB
- Volume
- 92
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0029-2397
- DOI
- 10.2307/25107790
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Translated by Margaret Hunt
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