Hans the Hedgehog 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.
Hans the Hedgehog (1812) - A countryman's wife bears a child who is half-
hedgehog, half-boy. The hedgehog goes into the woods and plays beautiful
music on his bagpipes, meets two kings, and goes on to marry a princess.
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