King Thrushbeard 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.
King Thrushbeard (1812) - A beautiful but overbearing princess who scorns
all her suitors is ordered by her fed-up father to marry a ballad-singing
beggar, then, because she is a beggar-wife, she is ordered to leave home.
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