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Like Sleeping Beauty awakening from her 100-year slumber, these childhood favorites arise fresh and blooming every time they're read. This new compilation of some of the world's greatest fairy tales abounds in timeless stories of the struggle of good against evil, bravery in the face of overwhelming danger, and virtue rewarded with everlasting love. Told to Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm almost two centuries ago by European storytellers, the tales possess...
5) Rapunzel
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English
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A beautiful girl with long golden hair is imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.
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[1979]
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English
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In "Rumpelstiltskin" a miller's careless boast that his clever daughter can "spin gold from straw" is forced by the king to make good on this claim. A little man arrives to help the miller's daughter in exchange for her firstborn child. When the daughter, who by now is the queen, gives birth to a child, the little man comes to collect. He agrees to release the queen from her promise if she can learn the imp's name. According to researchers at Durham...
10) The goose girl
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1964.
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English
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In The Goose Girl a princess' maid turns on her mistress while traveling and forces her to switch roles with her. The False princess then kills the princess' horse to keep it from talking and forces the real princess to herd geese with the boy Conrad. Conrad begins to notice strange things about the new goose-girl and informs the king. The king coaxes the truth out of the real princess and the false princess is duly punished.
11) The golden goose
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1988.
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English
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In "The Golden Goose" Dummling, the youngest and simplest of three brothers, is sent into the forest to chop wood. He shares his food and drink with a little gray man who directs him to a tree which, when chopped down, is found to contain a golden goose. Dummling sets off on a journey with the goose under his arm, eventually arriving in a kingdom wherein the king will offer his daughter's hand in marriage to any man who can make her laugh. This fairy...
12) Rumpelstiltskin
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2004.
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Full screen.
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English
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A troll helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold to save her father's life and gain the king's heart. Now the troll wants his reward, her first-born child, unless she can guess his name before the sun has risen three times.
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2005.
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English
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In "Cinderella" a young woman's stepmother and stepsisters force her to sleep in the ashes and do all the housework when her father is away, but with the help of her friend, the white dove, she is able to attend the prince's ball. In "King Thrushbeard" a king becomes fed up with his daughter Constance's rejection of every suitor and marries her off to a poor minstrel.
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