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The Fisherman and His Wife
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The Fisherman and His Wife
"
The Fisherman and His Wife
" is a German
fairy tale
collected by the
Brothers Grimm
, tale no. 19. It is
Aarne-Thompson
type 555, the fisherman and his wife. Its theme was used in
The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish
, an 1833 poem by
Aleksandr Pushkin
.
Virginia Woolf
has her character Mrs. Ramsey in
To the Lighthouse
read a version of the story to her son, James.
Günter Grass
's 1977 novel,
The Flounder
,
is loosely based on the fairy tale, as are
Emanuele Luzzati
's version,
Punch and the Magic Fish,
and Ursula LeGuin's novel
The Lathe of Heaven
.
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