A superb edition of 55 favourite tales collected by The Brothers Grimm
Favourites include Hansel and Grettel, Elves and the Shoemaker, Golden Goose, Rumpelstiltskin, Sleeping Beauty, Red Riding Hood and many more.
Grimm Stories remain as alluring and mysterious where the magic is very real and where the youngest son always triumphs and virtue is always rewarded
This Edition superbly illustrated with Noel Pocock's colour plates will be a book to treasure and keep for a lifetime. The Dwarfs he painted seem to spring out of the ancient rocky landscape, half human and half magical
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Jacob Grimm was born in 1785, followed by his brother Wilhelm in 1786. Their father, Phillipp, a judge, was ambitious and prosperous, while their mother, Dorothea, was a devoted and caring housewife, and they also had three more brothers and a sister. They lived in the town of Steinau in central Germany, in a large comfortable home. All the children went to
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