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Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enc.. by Gretchen Schultz; Lewis Seifert
Category: Classic | 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
Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn; Andrei Codrescu; Jack Zipes
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales Ser.
A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio HearnLafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was one of the nineteenth century's best-known writers, his name celebrated alongside those of Mark Twain and Robert Louis Steve ...Show more
The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales by Hermynia Zur Mühlen; Jack Zipes (Translator, Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales Ser.
A collection of radical political fairy tales--some in English for the first time--from one of the great female practitioners of the genreHermynia Zur M hlen (1883-1951), one of the twentieth century's great political writers, was not seemingly destined for a revolutionary, unconventional literary caree ...Show more
The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales by Juwen Zhang (Editor, Edited and Translated by); Jack Zipes (Foreword by)
Category: Classic Fiction | 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
The Fourth Pig by Naomi Mitchison; Marina Warner
Category: Fiction | Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales Ser.
An enchanting collection that introduces the author and activist Naomi Mitchison to a new generation of readers The Fourth Pig, originally published in 1936, is a wide-ranging collection of fairy tales, poems, and ballads that reflect the hopes and forebodings of their era but also resonate with those ...Show more
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