Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales by Alison Lurie

Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales by Alison Lurie

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Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales by Alison Lurie

Sleeping beauties? Not Clever Gretchen or Kate Crackernuts or Manka or any of the other young heroines in this wonderful collection of folktales. Active, witty, brave, and resourceful, these girls and young women can fight and hunt, defeat giants, answer riddles, outwit the Devil, and rescue friends and family from all sorts of dangers and evil spells. These stories and many others like them were gathered by scholars from all the countries of Europe, but are usually left out of the popular collections of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when women were supposed to be beautiful, innocent, and passive.

Alison Lurie's novels include The War Between the Tates, The Truth About Lorin Jones (Prix Femina Estranger, 1989), and Foreign Affairs (1985 Pulitzer Prize for fiction). She splits her time between Ithaca, Key West, and London at the moment.

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ISBN 13 9780595345212
ISBN 10 0595345212
Titel Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales
Autor Alison Lurie
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag iUniverse
Erscheinungsjahr 2005-04-26
Seitenanzahl 132
Hinweis auf dem Einband Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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