{"product_id":"fairy-tales-for-the-disillusioned-9780691161655","title":"Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The present volume contains thirty-five fairy tales by nineteen writers, presented chronologically by author\"--Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[F]un and intriguing ... [E]xcellent windows into a period in history, especially in France, when politics and world strife ... made it hard to embrace the [happily ever after] of the popular fairy tales.\"--Heidi Anne Heiner, SurLaLune Fairy Tales \"[S]ometimes sardonic, sometimes brutal, often blackly funny and possessed of a peculiarly modern sensibility.\"--Cameron Woodhead, Sydney Morning Herald \"It's easy to see why Fairy Tales For the Disillusioned is capturing rave reviews. Our cultural climate is ripe for such a round of stories and, as the series from which it appears states, these are, indeed Oddly Modern Fairy Tales.\"--Once Upon a Blog \"In these deliberately tarnished tales ... wondrousness mainly shines through in their often beautiful imagery.\"--Michael Dirda, Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations xi  Translators' Note and Acknowledgments xiii  Introduction xvii  TALES  Charles Baudelaire  Fairies' Gifts 3  Alphonse Daudet  The Fairies of France 6  Catulle Mendes  Dreaming Beauty 11  Isolina \/ Isolin 17  The Way to Heaven 22  An Unsuitable Guest 27  The Three Good Fairies 31  The Last Fairy 36  The Lucky Find 41  The Wish Granted, Alas! 45  Jules Lemaitre  The Suitors of Princess Mimi 48  Liette's Notions 60  On the Margins of Perrault's Fairy Tales: The White Rabbit and the Four-Leaf Clover 68  Paul Arene  The Ogresses 72  Jules Ricard  Fairy Morgane's Tales: Nocturne II 77  Marcel Schwob  Bluebeard's Little Wife 84  The Green She-Devil 88  Cice 92  Mandosiane 95  Willy  Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned 101  Henri de Regnier  The Living Door Knocker 108  Rachilde  The Mortis 115  Jacques d'Adelsward-Fersen  Sleeping Beauty Didn't Wake Up 128  Jean Lorrain  Princess of the Red Lilies 137  Princess Snowflower 142  Mandosiane in Captivity 148  Renee Vivien  Prince Charming 152  Albert Mockel  The Story of the Prince of Valandeuse 157  The Pleasant Surprise 165  Pierre Veber  The Last Fairy 173  Anatole France  The Seven Wives of Bluebeard 183  The Story of the Duchess of Cicogne and of Monsieur de Boulingrin 210  Emile Bergerat  The 28-Kilometer Boots 226  Cinderella Arrives by Automobile 233  Guillaume Apollinaire  Cinderella Continued, or the Rat and the Six Lizards 238  Claude Cahun  Cinderella, the Humble and Haughty Child 243  Bibliography 247  Biographical Notes 251","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403805761879,"sku":"9780691161655","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691161655.jpg?v=1730484600","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fairy-tales-for-the-disillusioned-9780691161655","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}