Translation copyright © 1972 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.

FIRST EDITION, 1972

Translated from the German, Märchen, Copyright S. Fischer Verlag, 1919; Copyright 1955 by Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin

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Library of Congress catalog card number: 70–179791

Published simultaneously in Canada by Doubleday Canada Ltd., Toronto

eISBN 9781466835214

First eBook edition: December 2012