Clever Gretel E-book Author: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Genre: Children Stories, Literature
Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859) - German philologists whose
collection "Kinder- und Hausmarchen," known in English as "Grimm's Fairy
Tales," is a timeless literary masterpiece. The brothers transcribed these
tales directly from folk and fairy stories told to them by common villagers.
Clever Gretel (1812) - Gretel, a cook who is in the habit of sampling what
she makes, prepares two fowls for her master and a guest. When the guest is
slow to arrive, Gretel's master goes to find him and Gretel eats the fowls.
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