Rumpelstiltskin, The Brothers Grimm
Rumpelstiltskin, The Brothers Grimm
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Rumpelstiltskin

Author: The Brothers Grimm

Narrator: George Newbern

Unabridged: 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/25/2018


Synopsis

In Rumpelstiltskin a miller's careless boast that his clever daughter can spin gold from straw is forced by the king to deliver on this claim. A little man arrives to help the miller's distraught daughter in exchange for her firstborn child. Later, when the daughter, now the queen, gives birth to her first child, the little man comes to collect. He agrees to release the queen from her promise if she can learn his name. According to researchers at Durham University and the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, this story originated around 4,000 years ago.

About The Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859), were scholars best known for their lifelong dedication to collecting and publishing ancient German folk tales.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Calista on May 27, 2019

I have always loved this story as a kid. I still never completely understood it though. I mean Rumpelstiltskin does save this girls life. The thing I have never understood is that the girl is threatened 3 times by this king guy and if she can’t spin straw into gold she will die. He seems like quite......more

Goodreads review by Bianca Escada (planningwithlove) on April 26, 2020

While this story always creeped me out.. to this day.. it still creeps me out. A little man hears a millers daughters plea for help. The miller offering up his daughter to the king for money. (Historically accurate for sure.) But the moral of this story... questionable. I do love the illustrations in......more