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A miller's daughter must spin straw into gold or die, striking a perilous bargain with a mysterious little man.
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A miller's daughter must spin straw into gold or die, striking a perilous bargain with a mysterious little man.
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Carol Ann Duffy's versions of Grimm include some very familiar tales - Snow White, Rumpelstiltskin, Ashputtel (Cinderella) and Little Red-cap - and some that will be new to many readers. But there will be surprising and unexpected elements in them all. The layers of varnish that have built up over the years in the re-telling of these classic folk tales have been stripped back. An award-winning poet, Carol Ann Duffy shows, unsurprisingly, an unflinching eye for the telling detail and the germane ...
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Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content depicted
Violence & gore
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Death threats; villain tears himself in two in a rage
Profanity
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No profanity present
Substance use
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No substance use depicted
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQIA+ representation present
Religious content
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Brief devil or witches references in some tellings
Magic & witchcraft
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Magical straw-to-gold spinning; supernatural imp drives the plot
Occult / demonology
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Child-bargain motif; brief devil mentions in some versions
Political content
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No political or ideological content present
Self-harm / suicide
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Villain fatally rips himself apart after losing his bargain
Abuse & suffering
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Imprisonment and death threats; central threat to take a child
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