Author : Gail de Vos
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 1999-10-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Explains how eight traditional European folktales can be altered in ways to reach teenagers, demonstrating how each story addresses such issues as leaving home, finding oneself, and discovering adult sexuality.
Author : Emma Donoghue
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 1999-02-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0064407721
Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with luminous voices that shimmer with sensuality and truth, these age-old characters shed their antiquated cloaks to travel a seductive new landscape, radiantly transformed.Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and runs off with the fairy godmother; Beauty discovers the Beast behind the mask is not so very different from the face she sees in the mirror; Snow White is awakened from slumber by the bittersweet fruit of an unnamed desire. Acclaimed writer Emma Donoghue spins new tales out of old in a magical web of thirteen interconnected stories about power and transformation and choosing one's own path in the world. In these fairy tales, women young and old tell their own stories of love and hate, honor and revenge, passion and deception. Using the intricate patterns and oral rhythms of traditional fairy tales, Emma Donoghue wraps age-old characters in a dazzling new skin. 2000 List of Popular Paperbacks for YA
Author : State Street Press
Publisher : Twin Palms Publishers
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : Ghost stories
ISBN : 9780681984127
Selected by Marvin Kaye and Saralee Kaye.
Author : Michael Swanwick
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1504036514
A collection of nineteen short stories from the Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author of The Iron Dragon’s Daughter and Stations of the Tide Written over the course of a decade, Tales from Old Earth contains nineteen masterful pieces of short fiction—including the Hugo Award–winning stories “The Very Pulse of the Machine” and “Scherzo with Tyrannosaur;” the World Fantasy Award–winning novella “Radio Waves;” Hugo Award finalists “The Dead,” “Radiant Doors,” and “Wild Minds;” and World Fantasy Award finalist “The Changeling’s Tale”—as well as an introduction by Bruce Sterling. From pure fantasy to hard science fiction, this finely crafted collection from one of the greatest science fiction writers of his generation promises to stretch readers’ minds far beyond ordinary limits. These tales are guaranteed to delight and are an excellent introduction to this highly praised author.
Author : Brothers Grimm
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307788067
For readers of all ages, two hundred and ten tales of the Brothers Grimm, including "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White," and "Hansel and Gretel," translated by Ralph Manheim, the highly acclaimed and prize-winning translator. Manheim has rediscovered in the original German Grimms’ editions of the tales the unadorned, direct rhythm of the oral form in which they were first recorded. He has retained their ageless magic and mythology and restored the extraordinary vitality and wit, the acute perceptions of human strength and facility mirrored in the facets of these small gems. “The best modern translation of the complete Brothers Grimm.”--Choice
Author : Marvin Kaye
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fantasy fiction
ISBN :
Author : Oliver E. Allen
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 30,96 MB
Release : 1999
Category : TriBeCa (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN : 9780967433608
Author : Emily Jenkins
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 16,41 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763665584
Seven classic fairy tales, interwoven and retold, retain the spirit of the original lore in contemporary language.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 43,52 MB
Release : 2002-04-04
Category : Ghost stories
ISBN : 9780316859967
This exceptional compilation contains more than fifty short stories, novellas and poems, both classic and modern, by some of the most distinguished writers of all time. Masterful works by Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecroft, Mary Shelley, Sheridan LeFanu, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Tennessee Williams, Isaac Asimov, J.R.R. Tolkien, in addition to little-known masterpieces of fantasy and terror by such authors as Stanley Ellin, Patricia Highsmith, John Dickson Carr and Damon Runyon, make this one of the most wide-ranging, outstanding collections of its kind. Marvin Kaye provides fascinating prefatory notes to each selection and an annotated bibliography of other recommended reading, as well as an Introduction and Afterword providing further insights into the genres of terror and the supernatural.
Author : Alison Lurie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 38,2 MB
Release : 2003-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780192803832
This marvelous collection of fairy tales, some moral, some satirical, some bizarre, reflects the popularity and scope of this enduring and versatile genre. Featuring tales written by figures as diverse as Charles Dickens and Ursula Le Guin, this anthology will appeal to the child that exists in every adult.
