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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Signed copy. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> So writes the American poet James Merrill at the opening of The Book of Ephraim’ the first part of his extraordinary long poem The Changing Light at Sandover (1982). Discussing the way in which he hopes to tell a story of his own he singles out two of the most important characteristics of the fairy tale as he sees it: the ‘serene anonymous’ voice in which it’s told and the ‘conven- tional stock figures’ who inhabit it. When Merrill mentions ‘Grimm’ he needs to say no more: we all know what he means. For most Western readers and writers in the past two hundred years the Kinder- und Hausm?rchen (Chil dren’s and Household Tales) of the Brothers Grimm