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Book Title: Rumpelstiltskin's Secret: What Women Didn't Tell The Grimms
Number of Pages: 274 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Rumpelstiltskin¿S Secret : What Women Didn¿T Tell the Grimms
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: European / German, Subjects & Themes / Women, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Children's & Young Adult Literature
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2019
Item Weight: 18.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Author: Harry Rand
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
