A Wild Swan
by Michael Cunningham | 
The Rose and the Beast
by Francesca Lia Block |
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
by Kate Bernheimer | 
The Bloody Chamber
by Angela Carter |
Cloaked in Red
by Vivian Vande Velde | 
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
by A. S. Byatt | 
Tales from the Brothers Grimm and the Sisters Weird
by Vivian Vande Velde |
The Armless Maiden
by Terri Windling | 
The Complete Fairy Tales
by George MacDonald |
Tinder
by Sally Gardner |
The Dark of the Woods
by Ellen Datlow |
The Wonder Clock
by Howard Pyle | 
The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
by Hermann Hesse | 
Oddly Enough
by Bruce Coville |
Troll's Eye View
by Ellen Datlow | 
Three and a Half Deaths
by Emma Donoghue | 
Hood
by Emma Donoghue | 
Stir-Fry
by Emma Donoghue | 
Landing
by Emma Donoghue | 
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
by Susanna Clarke |
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.