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2. Grimms' Fairy Tales - Wikipedia

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   Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen, pronounced [ˌkɪndɐ ʔʊnt ˈhaʊsmɛːɐ̯çən], commonly abbreviated as KHM), is a German collection of fairy tales by the Grimm brothers or "Brothers Grimm", Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812.

3. The Happy Prince and Other Tales - Wikipedia

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   The Happy Prince and Other Tales (or Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories: "The Happy Prince," "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Selfish Giant," "The Devoted Friend," and " The Remarkable Rocket ." In 2003, the second through fourth stories were adapted by Lupus ...

4. Hansel and Gretel - Wikipedia

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   Hansel and Gretel, a 1987 American/Israeli musical film directed by Len Talan with David Warner, Cloris Leachman, Hugh Pollard and Nicola Stapleton. Part of the 1980s film series Cannon Movie Tales. Elements from the story were used in the 1994 horror film Wes Craven's New Nightmare for its climax.

5. List of fairy tales - Wikipedia

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   Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a single ...

6. The Three Little Pigs - Wikipedia

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   The story in its arguably best-known form appeared in English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, first published on June 19, 1890, and crediting Halliwell as his source. The earliest published version of the story is from Dartmoor, Devon, England in 1853, and has three little pixies and a fox in place of the three pigs and a wolf. The first pixy had ...

7. The Elves and the Shoemaker - Wikipedia

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   AT 476*. AT 504. Country. Germany. Published in. Grimm's Fairy Tales. " The Elves and The Shoemaker " (German: Die Wichtelmänner) is a set of fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 39) about a poor shoemaker who receives much-needed help from three young helpful elves. [1] The original story is the first of three fairy tales ...