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Chargement... Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales (1980)par Alison Lurie
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is a short collection of folktales and fairy tales in which women and girls play leading roles. I have owned this book since I was a child and have read it many times; in fact, these are probably among the first folktales I ever read. The tales are told in an engaging manner and are easy to read. The illustrations are also appealing and have an old-fashioned, old-world feel that suits the tales. The book is short, and I think that a contemporary adult reader might want something more substantial. I would recommend it for younger readers of any gender. This isn't so much a "feminist" book as it is simply a collection of well-told tales with interesting characters. ( ) Written in 1980, this was probably considered unique collection - fairy tales with strong female characters. Thirty-five years later, it's good, but feels a bit bland. With easy to read prose, this would be an easy read for a mid-grade reader. Some of the stories (The Sleeping Prince) feel like a gender-switch Sleeping Beauty, but almost worse, as the princess still goes through a ridiculous amount of danger for a boy. In other stories, the heroine does it to save family (The Black Geese) or her friends (The Hand of Glory) which is nice to read. My favorite story was Mizilca, because she did not get married at the end! Over all, this is an okay collection but nothing special. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Sleeping beauties? Not Clever Gretchen or Kate Crackernuts or Manka or any of the other young heroines in this wonderful collection of folktales. Active, witty, brave, and resourceful, these girls and young women can fight and hunt, defeat giants, answer riddles, outwit the Devil, and rescue friends and family from all sorts of dangers and evil spells. These stories and many others like them were gathered by scholars from all the countries of Europe, but are usually left out of the popular collections of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when women were supposed to be beautiful, innocent, and passive. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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