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Grimm’s Fairy Tales ‘I will give you three days,’ said he, ‘and if within that time you discover my name you shall keep the child’ – From ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ It is curious to think that we owe so many of our best-loved fairy tales – from ‘The Frog Prince’ to ‘Rapunzel’ – to the scholarship of two German brothers in the 19th century. The Brothers Grimm collected some 200 traditional tales of Northern Europe… A study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle (hardback)