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Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Stories


Bloomsbury Classics

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No. of pages 144

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This collection brings together some of the better tales by the Brothers Grimm, including "The Frog Prince", "Rapunzel", "The Fisherman and His Wife" and "Rumpelstiltskin", as well as a number of the lesser-known ones. The fairy tales were first published in English translation in 1823.

 

This book is part of a book series called Bloomsbury Classics .

There are 144 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .

The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, were German professors whose collections of folk tales and fairy tales have been loved for generations.

This book contains the following story:

The Twelve Dancing Princesses
The king bans his twelve beautiful daughters from dancing, yet every night their shoes are worn through. The king promises that the man who can solve the mystery will marry one of his daughters - and rule the kingdom. But the princesses are as clever as they are beautiful and do not want to be constrained, and whilst many princes have tried to solve the mystery, all have failed. A poor soldier, seeking the reward, borrows an enchanted cloak from an old woman and is able to follow the princesses as they escape in the night to a castle where they dance with their twelve suitors. Having revealed his discovery to the king he chooses the eldest princess for his bride and becomes the kings heir.

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Bloomsbury Classics

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