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| Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
| Auflage | 2024 |
| Seiten | 256 |
| Format | 14,2 x 22,4 x 2,3 cm |
| Gewicht | 365 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9780241672457 |
| Bestell-Nr | 24167245EA |
Why don't they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil queen; that they are just the same person at different points in their story?
Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV's fever dream. It's a place of opulence, beauty, and power. But strip back the lavish exterior of polite society, and you'll find a dark undercurrent of sexual intrigue and vicious gossip. Nobody is safe here - no matter how highly born they are.
No one knows this better than Madame Marie d'Aulnoy. Each week, a rogue group of intellectuals gather at her Parisian home to debate, flirt and perform Contes de Fées - fairy tales - that challenge the status quo, at a salon that will change the course of literature forever. But while they weave tales of glass slippers, enchanted beasts and long-haired princesses, a wolf is lurking, who threatens to destroy the members of the salon one by one.
Brilliant and bawdy, romantic and provocative, The Mod ern Fairies is a dazzling novel inspired by real events, about the delights and dangers of storytelling in dark times.
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Elegant and decadent, vulgar and clever, enchanting and dark. The love child of Angela Carter and Anaïs Nin - the book I really really needed Sarah Perry, author of THE ESSEX SERPENT
