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List Of Fairytale Fantasies
{{short description, None This list of fairytale fantasies contains an illustrative list of fairytale fantasy works. Original Fairytale Works *Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's ''Undine (novella), Undine'' (1811) *E. T. A. Hoffmann's ''The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, The Nutcracker and the Mouseking'' (1816) *George MacDonald's ''Phantastes'' (1858) *Lewis Carroll's ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) *Lewis Carroll's ''Through the Looking-Glass'' (1871) *George MacDonald's ''At the Back of the North Wind'' (1871) *George MacDonald's ''The Princess and the Goblin'' (1872) *Carlo Collodi's ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1883) *L. Frank Baum's ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' (1900) *J. M. Barrie's ''Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan'' (1904: play) (1911: novel) *Lord Dunsany's ''The King of Elfland's Daughter'' (1924) *Lord Dunsany's ''The Charwoman's Shadow'' (1926) *James Thurber's ''Many Moons'' (1944) *James Thurber's ''The 13 Clocks'' (1950) *Jay Williams (author), Jay Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairytale Fantasy
Fairytale fantasy is distinguished from other subgenres of fantasy by the works' heavy use of motifs, and often plots, from folklore. History Literary fairy tales were not unknown in the Roman era: Apuleius included several in ''The Golden Ass''. Giambattista Basile retold many fairy tales in the ''Pentamerone'', an aristocratic frame story and aristocratic retellings. From there, the literary fairy tale was taken up by the French 'salon' writers of 17th century Paris (Madame d'Aulnoy, Charles Perrault, etc.) and other writers who took up the folktales of their time and developed them into literary forms. The Grimm brothers, despite their intentions being to ''restore'' the tales they collected, also transformed the ''Märchen'' they collected into ''Kunstmärchen''. These stories are not regarded as fantasies but as literary fairy tales, even retrospectively, but from this start, the fairy tale remained a literary form, and fairytale fantasies were an offshoot. Fairytale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Charwoman's Shadow
''The Charwoman's Shadow'' is a 1926 fantasy novel by Anglo-Irish writer Lord Dunsany. It is among the pioneering works in the field, published before the genre was named "fantasy". The book was reprinted in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifty-fifth volume in its celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in February 1973. It contains elements of the (later named) subgenres of historical fantasy and fairytale fantasy. Plot summary In Spain, during its Golden Age, a lord wishes to marry his daughter to a neighbor, but has no money for her dowry. He sends his son Ramon to a nearby magician who had befriended his father, in hopes that the son would learn to turn lead to gold. An old charwoman without a shadow works for the magician. The magician persuades him to trade his shadow for the knowledge, and gives him a substitute, and the charwoman who works for the magician laments that. He then learns that his substitute shadow does not grow and shrink as it ought to, maki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare B
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Stardust (Gaiman Novel)
''Stardust'' is a 1999 fantasy novel by British writer Neil Gaiman, usually published with illustrations by Charles Vess. ''Stardust'' has a different tone and style from most of Gaiman's prose fiction, being consciously written in the tradition of pre-Tolkien English fantasy, following in the footsteps of authors such as Lord Dunsany and Hope Mirrlees. It is concerned with the adventures of a young man from the village of Wall, which borders the magical land of Faerie. In 2007, a film based on the novel was released to generally positive reviews. Gaiman has also occasionally made references to writing a sequel, or at least another book concerning the village of Wall. The story begins in late April 1839, as John William Draper had just photographed the Moon and Charles Dickens was serialising '' Oliver Twist''. The majority of the book takes place seventeen years later, starting around October 1856. Main characters * Tristran Thorn: The book's main character (renamed " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon GaimanBorn as Neil Richard Gaiman, with "MacKinnon" added on the occasion of his marriage to Amanda Palmer. ; ( Neil Richard Gaiman; born 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, nonfiction, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series '' The Sandman'' and novels '' Stardust'', '' American Gods'', ''Coraline'', and '' The Graveyard Book''. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, ''The Graveyard Book'' (2008). In 2013, ''The Ocean at the End of the Lane'' was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards. It was later adapted into a critically acclaimed stage play at the Royal National Theatre in London, England that ''The Independent'' called "...theatre at its best". Early life Gaiman's f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ghost Drum
''The Ghost Drum'' is a children's fantasy novel by Susan Price, published by Faber in 1987, and the first book in the Ghost World trilogy (1987 to 1995). It is an original fairy tale using elements from Russian history and Russian folklore. Like many traditional tales it is full of cruelty, violence and sudden death. Price won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux published a US edition within the calendar year, entitled ''The Ghost Drum: A Cat's Tale''. Plot summary The novel is represented as a tale told by the "most learned of all cats". At the beginning and at the head of each chapter, the cat introduces the scenes and the characters. At the end, the cat asks the hearer/reader to pass on the tale so that it may "make its own way back to me, riding on another's tongue." A slave woman gives her new-born daughter to an old witch to be raised as a "Woman of Power". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Price
Susan Price (born 8 July 1955) is an English author of children's and young adult novels. She has won both the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for British children's books. Price was born in Dudley, Worcestershire (now West Midlands). Writing Many of Susan Price's works are fantasy, from science fiction to ghost stories; some are historical novels; others are about animals or everyday life. Many of her short stories are re-tellings of tales from folklore. Her first Ghost World novel, '' The Ghost Drum'' (1987), is an original fairy tale using elements from Russian history and Russian folklore. She won the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising ''The Ghost Drum'' as the year's best children's book by a British subject. In '' The Sterkarm Handshake'' (1998) and its sequel ''A Sterkarm Kiss'' (2003), time travel brings together a young anthropologist from 21st century Britain and a young warrior from 16th century Scotland. They become lovers and she s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wrestling Princess And Other Stories
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Corbalis
Judy Corbalis is a novelist and short story writer from New Zealand. She graduated from the University of East Anglia in 1991. She serves on the advisory council of the UK Friends of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Bibliography * ''The Wrestling Princess and other stories'' (1986) *''The Cuckoo Bird'' (1988) *''Oskar and the Ice-pick'' (1988) *''Porcellus, the Flying Pig'' (1988) *''The Ice Cream Heroes'' (1989) *''Your Dad's a Monkey'' (1989) *''Flying Pig to the Rescue'' (1991) *''Put a Sock in It, Percy'' (1994) *''Tapu'' (1996) *''Mortmain'' (2007) References External links Royal Literary Fund Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of the University of East Anglia New Zealand women novelists New Zealand women short story writers 20th-century New Zealand novelists 21st-century New Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ordinary Princess
''The Ordinary Princess'' is a children's novel written and illustrated by M. M. Kaye. It concerns Princess Amethyst Alexandra Augusta Araminta Adelaide Aurelia Anne of Phantasmorania—Amy for short—who has been given the "gift" of ordinariness. Like the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty, the story begins with the birth of a princess and the arrival of fairies—invited against the king's better judgment, for the sake of tradition—to give her gifts. The fairy godmother Crustacea, however, tells her, "You shall be Ordinary!" Unlike her six older sisters, Amy grows up with mousy hair, freckled, and plain, preferring playing in the woods to wearing fine clothes. When she finds out that her parents want to hire a dragon so that a foreign prince can "rescue" her from it and thereby "win her hand in marriage", she climbs down the wisteria vine outside her window, runs away to live in the Forest of Faraway, and makes animal friends, Peter Aurelious the crow and Mr. Pembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Williams (author)
Jay Williams (May 31, 1914 – July 12, 1978) was an American author of science fiction (often for children), fantasy, historical fiction, non-fiction, and radical theatre. Early life Williams was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Max and Lillian Jacobson. He cited the experience of growing up as the son of a vaudeville show producer as leading him to pursue his acting career as early as college. He attended both the University of Pennsylvania (1932–33) and Columbia University (1934), participating in amateur theatrical productions. Career Early endeavors Out of school and out of work during the end of the Great Depression, he worked as a comedian on the upstate New York Borscht Belt circuit. From 1936 until 1941, Jay Williams worked as a press agent for Dwight Deere Winman, Jed Harris and the Hollywood Theatre Alliance. Williams even played a feature role in the Cannes prize winning film, '' Little Fugitive'', produced in 1953. Williams served in the Army during Worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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