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Snow White Learns Witchcraft
| Author: | Theodora Goss |
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Mythic Delirium, 2019 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Fairytale Fantasy Mythic Fiction (Fantasy) |
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Synopsis
A young woman hunts for her wayward shadow at the school where she first learned magic--while another faces a test she never studied for as ice envelopes the world. The tasks assigned a bookish boy lead him to fateful encounters with lizards, owls, trolls and a feisty, sarcastic cat. A bear wedding is cause for celebration, the spinning wheel and the tower in the briar hedge get to tell their own stories, and a kitchenmaid finds out that a lost princess is more than she seems. The sea witch reveals what she hoped to gain when she took the mermaid's voice. A wiser Snow White sets out to craft herself a new tale.
In these eight stories and twenty-three poems, World Fantasy Award winner Theodora Goss retells and recasts fairy tales by Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Oscar Wilde. Sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious, always lyrical, the works gathered in Snow White Learns Witchcraft re-center and empower the women at the heart of these timeless narratives. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Jane Yolen, in her introduction, proclaims that Goss "transposes, transforms, and transcends times, eras, and old tales with ease. But also there is a core of tough magic that runs through all her pieces like a river through Faerie... I am ready to reread some of my new favorites."
Table of Contents:
- A Welcome to the Coven: Introduction - essay by Jane Yolen
- Snow White Learns Witchcraft - poem
- The Ogress Queen - poem
- The Rose in Twelve Petals - (2002) - short story
- Thorns and Briars - poem
- Rose Child - (2016) - poem
- Thumbelina - poem
- Blanchefleur - (2013) - novelette
- Mr. Fox - poem
- What Her Mother Said - (2004) - poem
- Snow, Blood, Fur - (2017) - short story
- The Red Shoes - poem
- Girl, Wolf, Woods - poem
- Red as Blood and White as Bone - (2016) - novelette
- The Gold-Spinner - poem
- Rumpelstiltskin - poem
- Goldilocks and the Bear - poem
- Sleeping With Bears - (2003) - short story
- The Stepsister's Tale - poem
- The Clever Serving-Maid - poem
- Seven Shoes - (2017) - poem
- The Other Thea - (2016) - novelette
- The Sensitive Woman - poem
- The Bear's Wife - (2016) - poem
- The Bear's Daughter - (2004) - poem
- A Country Called Winter - novelette
- How to Make It Snow - poem
- Diamonds and Toads - poem
- The Princess and the Frog - poem
- Conversations with the Sea Witch - short story
- The Nightingale and the Rose - poem
- Mirror, Mirror - poem
- Acknowledgments - essay
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