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Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales
Alison Lurie
Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales
Alison Lurie
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.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 26, 2005 |
ISBN13 | 9780595345212 |
Publishers | Backinprint.com |
Pages | 130 |
Dimensions | 150 × 8 × 226 mm · 204 g |
Language | English |
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