Snow White learns witchcraft : stories and poems

Author

Theodora Goss

Call Number

• FICTION GOSS (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

[United States] : Mythic Delirium Books, 2019.

Physical Description

221 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"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 women at the heart of these timeless narratives..."--Back cover.

Contents

• Snow White learns witchcraft
• The ogress queen
• The rose in twelve petals
• Thorns and briars
• Rose child
• Thumbelina
• Blanchefleur
• Mr. Fox
• What her mother said
• Snow, blood, fur
• The red shoes
• Girl, wolf, woods
• Red as blood and white as bone
• The gold-spinner
• Rumpelstiltskin
• Goldilocks and the bear
• Sleeping with bears
• The stepsister's tale
• The clever-serving maid
• Seven shoes
• The other Thea
• The sensitive woman
• The bear's wife
• The bear's daughter
• A country called Winter
• How to make it snow
• Diamonds and toads
• The princess and the frog
• Conversations with the sea witch
• The nightingale and the rose
• Mirror, mirror.