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Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enc.. by Gretchen Schultz; Lewis Seifert
Category: Classics | Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales Ser.
A newly translated collection of subversive French fairy tales by writers from the Belle poqueThe wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella do not live happily ever after. And the fairies are saucy, angry, and capricio ...Show more
Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition by Gretchen Schultz & Lewis Seifert
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales
The wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella do not live happily ever after. And the fairies are saucy, angry, and capricious. Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned collects thirty-six tales, many newly translated, by wri ...Show more
The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales by Juwen Zhang (Editor, Edited and Translated by); Jack Zipes (Foreword by)
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales Ser.
A delightful collection of modern Chinese tales The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales brings together forty-two magical Chinese tales, most appearing for the first time in English. These stories have been carefully selected from more than a thousand originally published in the early twen ...Show more
Told Again: Old Tales Told Again - Updated Edition by Walter de la Mare
Category: No Category | Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales
Originally published in 1927, Told Again is an enchanting collection of elegant fairy tales, showcasing the formidable talents of a writer who used magical realism before the term had even been invented. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was one of the most celebrated writers of children's literature during ...Show more
Workers Tales - Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britain by Michael Rosen
Category: Classics | Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales
A collection of political tales--first published in British workers' magazines--selected and introduced by acclaimed critic and author Michael RosenIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, unique tales inspired by traditional literary forms appeared frequently in socialist-leaning British p ...Show more
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