Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition

Book Overview

A new collection of subversive French fairy tales

The wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella do not live happily ever after. And the fairies are saucy, angry, and capricious. Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned collects thirty-six tales, many newly translated, by writers associated with the decadent literary movement, which flourished in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691161658
• ISBN13: 9780691161655
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 7.9"