"Charles De Lint - Jack, The Giant-Killer" - читать интересную книгу автора (De Lint Charles)

Chamber (and the movie тАЬThe Company of WolvesтАЭ
derived from a story in that collection) base their stories
directly on old tales, breathing new life into them, and
presenting them to the modern reader.

The Fairy Tales series presents new novels of the later
sortтАФnovels directly based on traditional fairy tales. Each
novel in the series is firmly based on a specific, often
familiar, taleтАФyet each author is free to use that tale as he
or she pleases, showing the diverse ways a modern
story-teller can approach traditional material.

The novel you hold in your hands brings the old tales
of Jack the Giant-Killer and Jack and the Beanstalk, as
well as other bits of fairy lore, to modern day CanadaтАФby
an author who has gained a wide following for his ability
to weave mythic motifs with modern characterizations and
settings, creating Fairy Tales for the Twentieth Century.
Other novels in the Fairy Tales series include a romantic
retelling of Rose White, Rose Red; Hans Christian
AndersenтАЩs The Nightingale as a Japanese historical
fantasy; a reworking of the Hungarian The Sun, the Moon,
and the Stars into a thought-provoking modern novel; a
moody and beautiful retelling of The Briar RoseтАж and
much more. Fantasy and horror by some of the most
talented writers in these two fields, retelling the worldтАЩs
most beloved tales, in editions lovingly designedтАФas all
good Fairy Tale books should be. We hope youтАЩll enjoy
them.
 FOREWORD
All characters and events in this book are fictitious and
any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely
coincidental.
It was in the late summer of 1984 that Terri Windling
first told me of her concept for a series of novel-length
retellings of traditional fairy tales and asked me if IтАЩd be
interested in doing one. The idea was so
intriguingтАФespecially when she mentioned that said
stories could take place in any settingтАФthat without
waiting for a contract, or even to find out if she could
place the series, I immediately sat down to work on my
contribution to it.
The principal reason for my interest was that IтАЩd been
wanting to write a high fantasy placed in a contemporary
setting for some time. I liked the novels that IтАЩd written to
date using this general concept, but I felt that the actual
blending of faerie with an urban setting had worked with
only varying degrees of success. In them, faerie was still
an intrusion into the real world, rather than something that
was always present, but invisible to the casual glance. This