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Hänsel und Gretel is present in all 7 lifetime editions of the brothers Grimm's Kinder- und Hausmärchen and all 10 editions of the Kleine Ausgabe.
The 1812 and 1819 editions use double quotes, the other ones use single quotes. For reasons of clarity, the single quotes were normalized to double quotes and thus are not visualized as variants in the comparisons.

1810
1812
1812 Handexemplare
1819
1819 Handexemplare
1837
1840
1843
1850
1857
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In numbers:
1810

1100 w.
30.75% =

≠ 759 w.
+ 861 w.
1812

1961 w.
94.8% =

≠ 101 w.
+ 121 w.
1812
Hand
exemplare


2082 w.
81.71% =

≠ 371 w.
+ 25 w.
1819

2107 w.
99.48% =

≠ 10 w.
+ 4 w.
1819
Hand
exemplare


2111 w.
91.17% =

≠ 182 w.
+ -3 w.
1837

2108 w.
96.86% =

≠ 74 w.
+ 5 w.
1840

2113 w.
49.18% =

≠ 1098 w.
+ 512 w.
1843

2625 w.
93.57% =

≠ 152 w.
+ 52 w.
1850

2677 w.
99.56% =

≠ 12 w.
+ 0 w.
1857

2677 w.
181021.18% =

≠ 875 w.
+ 1577 w.
1857

70.00% = : 70 % of the text of the previous version was retained.
≠ 200 w. : 200 words were changed in the next version.
+ 100 w. : 100 words were added in the next version.
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