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![]() ![]() Unable to be cheered up by the neighbours, she hangs herself when her husband gets home, “he became so despondent that he died soon thereafter”. ![]() Unfortunately, the stabbing meant she left her other child alone in the bath, where he drowned. It ends direly: a boy cuts the throat of his little brother, only to be stabbed in the heart by his enraged mother. How the Children Played at Slaughtering, for example, stays true to its title, seeing a group of children playing at being a butcher and a pig. ![]() His version of the original 156 stories is just out from Princeton University Press, illustrated by Andrea Dezsö, and shows a very different side to the well-known tales, as well as including some gruesome new additions. So, the versions with which most English-speaking (and German-speaking) readers are familiar are quite different from the tales in the first edition,” he told the Guardian. “Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal. Jack Zipes, professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota, says he often wondered why the first edition of the tales had never been translated into English, and decided, eventually, to do it himself. ![]()
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