Household Stories - Grimm

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY "—AT LAST HE CAME TO THE TOWER & OPENED THE DOOR OF THE LITTLE ROOM WHERE ROSAMOND LAY."

HOUSEHOLD STORIES, FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE BROS GRIMM - TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY LUCY CRANE; AND DONE INTO PICTURES BY WALTER CRANE - DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. NEW YORK


This new Dover edition, first published in 1963,
is an unabridged republication of the work first
published by Macmillan and Company in 1886.



Standard Book Number: 486-21080-4
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-16327


Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc.
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New York, N. Y. 10014


Transcriber's Notes:

There are several inconsistencies in hyphenation. The following wordsappear in the text both with and without a hyphen: bed-chamber,bed-time, egg-shell, god-father, house-door, in-doors, mill-stone,sea-side, step-mother, up-stairs.

A picture (tailpiece to The Wonderful Musician) listed in the List of Illustrations was not found in two different copies of the book.

I have changed or added wrong or missing punctuation in the followingphrases:
  • "Little sister, let me out, I must go[added .]"
  • stood a maiden more beautiful than any he had seen before[added .]
  • put a cap on her, and laid her in the bed in the Queen's place.[changed . to ,]
  • So Kate went, and she thought to herself.[changed . to ,]
  • as it weighed upon her heavily, she thought it must be the the [deleted repeated word] dried apples, and she said,
  • neck is in danger'[changed ' to ? and added "] answered the cat.
  • "Father, let me go for once into the forest to cut wood;[added "]

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