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Rags & bones : new twists on timeless tales

Marr, Melissa. (Added Author). Pratt, Tim, 1976- (Added Author).

Summary: An anthology of reimagined classic tales by best-selling and award-winning young adult authors applies unique spins to old favorites, from Saladin Ahmed's interpretation of Sir Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene to Neil Gaiman's twisted adaptation of "Sleeping Beauty."

Item details

ISBN: 9780316212946 (hardcover edition)
ISBN: 0316212946 (hardcover edition)
ISBN: 9780316212922 (e-book edition)
ISBN: 031621292X (e-book edition)
Physical Description: print
xi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2013.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / by Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt -- That the machine may progress eternally / by Carrie Ryan, inspired by E.M. Forster's The machine stops -- The King of Elfland's daughter / by Charles Vess -- Losing her divinity / by Garth Nix, inspired by The man who would be king -- The sleeper and the spindle / by Neil Gaiman, inspired by Sleeping Beauty -- Kai Lung's golden hours / by Charles Vess -- The cold corner / by Tim Pratt, inspired by Henry James' The jolly corner -- Millcara / by Holly Black, inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla -- Figures of earth / by Charles Vess -- When first we were gods / by Rick Yancey, inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's The birthmark -- Sirocco / by Margaret Stohl, inspired by Horace Walpole's The castle of Otranto -- The shaving of Shagpat / by Charles Vess -- Awakened / by Melissa Marr, inspired by Kate Chopin's The awakening -- New Chicago / by Kelley Armstrong, inspired by W.W. Jacob's The monkey's paw -- The wood beyond the world / by Charles Vess -- The soul collector / by Kami Garcia, inspired by the Brothers Grimm's Rumpelstiltskin -- Without faith, without law, without joy / by Saladin Ahmed, inspired by Sir Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene -- Goblin market / by Charles Vess -- Uncaged / by Gene Wolf, inspired by William Seabrook's The caged white werewolf.

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Young adult fiction.

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