How to Spin Gold: A Woman's Tale

by Elizabeth Cunniingham and Elizabeth Cunningham

Book Overview

First paperback edition of this modern transformtion of the Rumpelstiltskin fairytale. Written as the autobiography of a mysteriously deformed girl who runs away from her medieval village and becomes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886449120
• ISBN13: 9781886449121
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Barrytown Limited
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Best book I ever read!!!!!!!

HOW TO SPIN GOLD is the best book I've ever read. I loved it, and you'll love it. Buy this book!

Rumplestilkskin was really the Woman of the Wood.

The nameless "girl with the silver eye," an outcast, has a powerful connection with the lovely Miller's Daughter, Orelie. The nameless girl becomes the Woman of the Wood, a power outside the community, while Orelie is called to marry the Prince. The woman of the wood is in love with him, Orelie is not. The gold is spun, the ill-fated marriage is sealed, but the woman of the wood does not get Orelie's first-born--a girl. And yet, in the end, the contract is fulfilled--except that the story is wrong, the one we've all heard, about the spiteful little man whose name is found out. Her name is never known, except by her. A wonderful, compelling read. Hard to put down.