Tag Archives: Fairy Tales
City of Laughter
by Temim FruchterA rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a…
Where Three Roads Meet
by Salley Vickers“[A] glowing sliver of a novel . . . Utterly surprising . . . Where Three Roads Meet is a . . . profoundly…
Weight
by Jeanette WintersonCondemned to shoulder the world, for ever, by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then he receives an unexpected…
Stories from a Ming Collection
by Cyril BirchThis selection of stories from Feng Menglong’s collection, Stories Old and New (originally published in 1624), includes representative types of the traditional art of…
A Short History of Myth
by Karen Armstrong“What Armstrong does in her skid over the millennia is make comparisons, connections, and contrasts in a way that cannot fail to enlighten the general reader. What myth once did, novels now do . . . Myths are narratives: as she eloquently says, we shouldn’t be done with them yet.”…
Ragnarok
by A.S. ByattFrom “one of the most brilliant minds and speakers of our generation” (The Independent) comes an extraordinary tale, inspired by the myth of Ragnarök.
The Penelopiad
by Margaret Atwood“Atwood rescues Penelope from thousands of years of ho-hum-dom . . . part of Canongate’s innovative new reinventions of the classics.” –Yvonne Zipp, Christian…
My Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales
by Robert Antoni“It’s magical stuff, outrageous and scatological, sharpened to a fine, funny point, and an entirely charming read.” –The Hartford Courant
Monkey
by Ch'eng-en WuThis classic combination of picaresque novel and folk epic is probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East.
Lion’s Honey
by David Grossman“Not a mere retelling but a meticulous analysis and a commentary on the original text . . . Grossman paints us a portrait of…
