"Rapunzel is impregnated by her prince, the evil queen in Snow White is the princess’s biological mother, plotting to murder her own child, and a hungry mother in another story is so 'unhinged and desperate' that she tells her daughters: 'I’ve got to kill you so I can have something to eat.' Never before published in English, the first edition of the Brothers Grimms’ tales reveals an unsanitised version of the stories that have been told at bedtime for more than 200 years...
"Wilhelm Grimm... 'deleted all tales that might offend a middle-class religious sensitivity'...
Alison Flood is a writer on guardian.co.uk/books and former news editor of the Bookseller
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