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489:; set in Hamelin 30 years after the Piper has stolen the children, a girl who arrives in the village to live with her aunt and uncle commits the sin of singing and is exiled from Hamelin, beginning a journey that leads her to find the Piper in a cave where he is a maestro to an orchestra composed of the abducted children now grown-up.
530:(children's novel, 2007): a retelling of the legend from the perspective of two of the children lured by the Piper, and the Piper himself. The book attempts to explain the Piper's motivations and paints him as a much more sympathetic character than other iterations of the story.
268:, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" (1842): Using the Verstegan/Wanley version of the tale and adopting the 1376 date, Browning's verse retelling is notable for its humor, wordplay, and jingling rhymes. An 1888 edition illustrated by Kate Greenaway was published by
352:(novel, 1976): story of a young assistant to a modern day inventor who builds a time machine and displaced the children from Hamelin in the past to the present, explaining their disappearance.
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Decan Lude chorus book (c. 1384): now lost, a chorus book owned by Decan Lude of
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272:, Ltd., of London.
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