Snow White learns witchcraft : stories and poems

Snow White learns witchcraft Stories and poems

Theodora Goss

Book - 2019

"A young woman hunts for her wayward shadow at the school where she first learned magic--while another faces a test she never studied for as ice envelopes the world. The tasks assigned a bookish boy lead him to fateful encounters with lizards, owls, trolls, and a feisty, sarcastic cat. A bear wedding is cause for celebration, the spinning wheel and the tower in the briar hedge get to tell their own stories, and a kitchenmaid finds out that a lost princess is more than she seems. The sea witch reveals what she hoped to gain when she took the mermaid's voice. A wiser Snow White sets out to craft herself a new tale. In these eight stories and twenty-three poems, World Fantasy Award winner Theodora Goss retells and recasts fairy tales... by Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Oscar Wilde. Sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious, always lyrical, the works gathered in Snow White Learns Witchcraft' re-center and empower women at the heart of these timeless narratives..."--Back cover.

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Subjects
Magic > Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Short stories.
Poetry.
Genres
Fantasy fiction
Short stories
Poetry
Published
[United States] : Mythic Delirium Books 2019.
Language
English
Main Author
Theodora Goss (author)
Other Authors
Jane Yolen (writer of introduction)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
221 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9781732644007
  • Snow White learns witchcraft
  • The ogress queen
  • The rose in twelve petals
  • Thorns and briars
  • Rose child
  • Thumbelina
  • Blanchefleur
  • Mr. Fox
  • What her mother said
  • Snow, blood, fur
  • The red shoes
  • Girl, wolf, woods
  • Red as blood and white as bone
  • The gold-spinner
  • Rumpelstiltskin
  • Goldilocks and the bear
  • Sleeping with bears
  • The stepsister's tale
  • The clever-serving maid
  • Seven shoes
  • The other Thea
  • The sensitive woman
  • The bear's wife
  • The bear's daughter
  • A country called Winter
  • How to make it snow
  • Diamonds and toads
  • The princess and the frog
  • Conversations with the sea witch
  • The nightingale and the rose
  • Mirror, mirror.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

This lush collection artfully gathers together many of World Fantasy Award winner Goss's fairy tale-themed poems and short fiction published over the last 16 years, including her Locus-nominated story "Red as Blood and White as Bone." As a Hungarian-American raised on Hans Christen Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, Goss takes obvious delight in reweaving classic European folk tales to reveal new, often deeply feminist, perspectives. In "The Gold Spinner," Rumpelstiltskin is recast as a girl lying to save herself, while "Conversations with the Sea Witch" features the Little Mermaid as an old woman looking back on a life both difficult and well-lived. In "A Country Called Winter," a college student must come to terms with her birthright as ice threatens to overtake the world, while "Mr. Fox" explores the balance of power between lovers, and the choice to say no to a future others have laid out is celebrated in "The Princess and the Frog." Perhaps most poignant of all, "The Nightingale and the Rose" is a beautiful, sensitive reminder that storybook love is not all it's cracked up to be. This toothsome collection is best read in one go. (Feb.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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