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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
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Becca
Apr 20, 2009 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fiction, middle-reader, my-childhood-books, fantasy
The Grimms were quite the collectors!

I'm interested to see which tales they 'germanized' (a big criticism of their collecting/writing/storytelling) but I haven't gotten to that research yet.

I may be lacking a few minor tales. My favourite story (I think) was The Twelve Dancing Princesses.

Though I *really* enjoyed the Grimms' work, reading fairy tales back to back was surprisingly exhausting. Yes, no Disney happily ever afters. Yes, beautifully depressing. But I had to take breaks. If you plan t ...more
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Pamela(AllHoney)
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I grew up loving fairy tales and still do.
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