The great fairy tale tradition : from Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm
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Jack Zipes.
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Encyclopedia of the Modern World
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Peter N. Stearns (Editor)
Europe, 1450 to 1789 : encyclopedia of the early modern world
by
Jonathan Dewald,
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