A collection of classic fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm, translated by Lucy Crane. It brings together familiar stories such as Sleeping Beauty and other folk tales of magic, kings, animals, and ordinary people. These enduring narratives are well suited to family listening and to discovering the roots of European storytelling.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
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Household Stories - Grimm THE SLEEPING BEAUTY "—AT LAST HE CAME TO THE TOWER & OPENED THE DOOR OF THE LITTLE ROOM WHERE ROSAMOND LAY." HOUSEHOLD STORIES, FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE BROS GRIMM - TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY LUCY CRANE; AND DONE INTO PICTURES BY WALTER CRANE - DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. NEW YORK This new Dover edition, first published in 1963, is an unabridged republication of the work first published by Macmillan and Company in 1886. Standard Book Number: 486-21080-4 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-16327 Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications, Inc. 180 Varick Street New York, N. Y. 10014
Transcriber's Notes: There are several inconsistencies in hyphenation. The following words appear in the text both with and without a hyphen: bed-chamber, bed-time, eggshell, god-father, house-door, in-doors, mill-stone, sea-side, step-mother, upstairs. A picture (tailpiece to The Wonderful Musician) listed in the List of Illustrations was not found in two different copies of the book. I have changed or added wrong or missing punctuation in the following phrases: • "Little sister, let me out, I must go[added .]" • stood a maiden more beautiful than any he had seen before[added .] • put a cap on her, and laid her in the bed in the Queen's place. [changed . to ,] • So Kate went, and she thought to herself.[changed . to ,] • as it weighed upon her heavily, she thought it must be the the [deleted repeated word] dried apples, and she said, • neck is in danger'[changed ' to ? and added "] answered the cat. • "Father, let me go for once into the forest to cut wood;[added "]
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