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My intention was not to do 'versions' or, as the American edition of the book said, horribly, 'adult' fairy tales, but to extract the latent content from the traditional stories.
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- ↑ The Plattner Story title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
