Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition

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A new collection of subversive French fairy tales The wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella do not live happily ever after. And the fairies are saucy, angry, and capricious. Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned collects thirty-six tales, most newly translated,

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In these deliberately tarnished tales wondrousness mainly shines through in their often beautiful imagery.Michael Dirda, Washington Post
This is a wonderful resource for scholars of fairy tales and decadent literature and a timely, thought-provoking collection for nonspecialists.Choice
Besides being a thoroughly engaging read, Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned is an extraordinary contribution to the fairy-tale canon. Schultz and Seifert have managed to recover a little bit of the magic so necessary for modern life.Victoria Leslie, Gramarye Journal
Sometimes sardonic, sometimes brutal, often blackly funny and possessed of a peculiarly modern sensibility.Cameron Woodhead, Sydney Morning Herald

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Gretchen Schultz and Lewis Seifert are professors of French studies at Brown University.