Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9780595345212

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by Alison Lurie (Author)

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.

Number of Pages: 132

Dimensions: 0.31 x 9 x 6 IN

Illustrated: Yes

Publication Date: April 26, 2005

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