Grimms' Fairy Tales and the earliest found version of their tales.
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The Grimms have extensively edited their tales, and each tale varies slightly in each of the 7 editons of tales published between 1812 and 1847. About the closest you can come to finding the tales in their "most" original form before the Grimms edited them, is by trying to come across a copy of their Oldenburg manuscripts in 1810. These were the tales that they had sent to Clemens Brentano for his collection of "Des ...
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