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King Grisly-Beard
By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm
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A great king of a land far away in the East had a daughter who was very beautiful, but so proud, and haughty, and conceited, that none of the princes who came to ask her in marriage was good enough fo ...
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The Twelve Dancing Princesses
By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm
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There was a king who had twelve beautiful daughters. They slept in twelve beds all in one room; and when they went to bed, the doors were shut and locked up; but every morning their shoes were found t ...
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Tom Thumb
By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm
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A poor woodman sat in his cottage one night, smoking his pipe by the fireside, while his wife sat by his side spinning. 'How lonely it is, wife,' said he, as he puffed out a long curl of smoke, 'for y ...
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Rapunzel
By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm
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Little Red-Cap
By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm
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The Frog-Prince
By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm
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Whilst she was speaking, a frog put its head out of the water, and said, 'Princess, why do you weep so bitterly?' 'Alas!' said she, 'what can you do for me, you nasty frog? My golden ball has fallen i ...
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Briar Rose
By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm
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Hansel and Gretel
By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm
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Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his two children. The boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel. He had little to bite and to break, and once when great dearth fell o ...
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Ashputtel
By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm
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The Butterfly that Stamped
By Rudyard Kipling
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The Crab that Played with the Sea
By Rudyard Kipling
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'Play at being a Beaver,' and All-the Beaver-there-was played. all the beasts and birds and fishes and told them what to play at. the Animals were playing. ready for him. map. chew her cud. 'Kun?' sai ...
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How the Leopard got His Spots
By Rudyard Kipling
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didn't know which way to jump, Best Beloved. They didn't indeed! his legs were the longest--they went away from the High Veldt. South Africa. And Baviaan winked. He knew. And Baviaan winked. He knew. ...
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The Elephant's Child
By Rudyard Kipling
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hairy, hairy paw. And still he was full of 'satiable curtiosity! spanked him. And still he was full of 'satiable curtiosity! stopping, for a long time. for luck, though he asked them most politely to ...
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How the Camel got His Hump
By Rudyard Kipling
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hump. him he said 'Humph!' Just 'Humph!' and no more. Man. 'Humph!' said the Camel; and the Dog went away and told the Man. 'Humph!' said the Camel; and the Ox went away and told the Man. said 'Humph! ...
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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A Scandal in Bohemia
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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I. To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emo ...
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The Red-Headed League
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. With an ...
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The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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As Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1904 story, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, opens, Sherlock Holmes is relaxing comfortably in his study when a police inspector comes knocking on his door. Apparently ...
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