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Très Grimm!!!
In the early Nineteenth Century, the Brothers Grimm became
renowned as collectors of German folk tales, retelling them in
the language of the common folk rather than the aloof academic.
Not initially successful, they eventually achieved fame and prosperity.
They were, in a sense, literary anthropologists. The versions
of these tales that most American children have come to know
have been bowdlerized and sanitized and are sometimes bland.
The original German versions are stranger, darker, often violent,
sometimes in distinctly questionable taste.
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