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...young woman discovers a secret room full of the corpses of her husband’s former wives. The original “Little Mermaid,” by Hans Christian Andersen, finds Ariel’s less-lucky predecessor forfeiting her life to save her prince. In the Grimms?? fairy tale, Cinderella’s stepsisters mutilate themselves in order to squeeze their feet into the glass slipper. The grim plots and endings don’t negate the fact that they’re all magnificent stories. The problem with Kurt Schwitters’ Merz stories...
There are 210 tales in the Grimms?? complete collection. Tatar’s book includes 46, arranged in the order of the original volume. “I’m trying to capture a historical document,” Tatar says, “to let it unfold as it would for a nineteenth century reader...
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