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How to Fracture a Fairy Tale
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Eileen Stevens, Derek Perkins, Henrietta Meire, Feodor Chin, Lauren Ezzo, Tim Campbell, Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Anthologies & Short Stories
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Fantasy icon Jane Yolen is adored by generations of readers and listeners of all ages. Now she triumphantly returns with this inspired gathering of fractured fairy tales and legends. Yolen breaks open the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets: a philosophical bridge that misses its troll, a spinner of straw as a falsely accused moneylender, the villainous wolf adjusting poorly to retirement. Each of these offerings features a new author note and original poem, illuminating tales that are old, new, and brilliantly refined.
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- Pinklady
- 21-05-20
intetesting
interesting fairy tales that have been fractured in various ways. well written and Entertaining.
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