"Jane Yolen - Briar Rose" - читать интересную книгу автора (Yolen Jane)

McKillip's The Forgotten Beasts of Eld. And others, like Robin Mc
ley in Beauty or Angela Carter in The Bloody Chamber (and the rn
The Company of Wolves derived from a story in that collection)
their stories directly on old tales, breathing new life into them,
presenting them to the modem reader.
The Fairy Tales series presents novels of the later sort-nc
directly based on traditional fairy tales. Each novel in the seri
based on a specific, often familiar, tale-yet each author is fre
retell that story in his or her own way, showing the diverse w
modern story-teller can make of traditional material. In the (
novels of the Fairy Tale series, published by Ace Books, Steven I
used a folk tale from his Hungarian heritage to mirror a contet
rary story of artists and courage and the act of creation in The
the Moon, and the Stars. In Jack the Giant-Killer, Charles de Lint cr(
a faery world in the shadows of a modern Canadian city; as
the Latin American "magic realists," the fantasy in this novel
us much about the real world and one young woman's confr
tion with the secret places in her own heart. In The Nightingale,
Dalkey turned Hans Christian Andersen's classic story into a h
ing historical novel set in ancient Japan, a tale of love and magi(
poetry which evokes the life of the Japanese imperial court as c
as did the diaries of the imperial court ladies, written so r
centuries ago.
With the fourth volume, the Fairy Tale series moved tc
Books. In Snow White and Rose Red, Patricia Wrede move(
Grimm fairy tale into an Elizabethan milieu, creating a charmin
romantic novel set in the enchanted forest of an England that
was. And in Tam Lin, Pamela Dean transformed the Scots fair
and folk-ballad of that name into a novel of knowledge and d
set at a modern midwestern university.
The novel you hold in your hands, the sixth in the Fairy
Series, is by one of the most acclaimed makers of modqn m6
Jane Yolen. Yolen has taken the German tale Briar Rose, also k
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as Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, and turned it into a contemporary tale
both dark and bright, both terrifying and inspiring. It is an honor to
include this excellent novel by one of my all-time favorite writers in
our ongoing Fairy Tale series.
We have more Fairy Tales in the works for you by some of the
most talented writers working today, re-telling the world's most
beloved tales in editions lovingly designed (by the award-winning
Boston artist/illustrator Thomas Canty) as all good fairy tales
should be.
I hope you enjoy them all.

-TERRI WINDLING