The Pied Piper of Hamelin

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Browning's poem, based on a medieval German legend, was first published in 1842. Who better than Arthur Rackham to illustrate the rats that bedevil the town of Hamelin, the magicia n who promises to remove them, and the disaster that befalls the town when the council refuses to pay his fee? His imaginative depiction of the Pied Piper makes this strange tale even more bizarre. Show more