Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales
Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales
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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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780595345212 |
| ISBN 10 | 0595345212 |
| Title | Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales |
| Author | Alison Lurie |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | iUniverse |
| Year published | 2005-04-26 |
| Number of pages | 132 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |