The Modern Fairies
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'Elegant and decadent, vulgar and clever, enchanting and dark. The
love child of Angela Carter and Anais Nin - the book I really
really needed' SARAH PERRY, author of The Essex SerpentWhy don't
they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil
queen, that they are just the same person at different points in
their story?Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living
fairy-tale, Louis XIV's fever dream. It's a place of opulence,
beauty, and power.But strip back the lavish exterior of polite
society, and you'll find a dark undercurrent of sexual intrigue and
vicious gossip. Nobody is safe here - no matter how highly born
they are. No one knows this better than Madame Marie d'Aulnoy.Each
week, a rogue group of intellectuals gather at her Parisian home to
debate, flirt and perform Contes de Fées - fairy tales - that
challenge the status quo, at a salon that will change the course of
literature forever. But while they weave tales of glass slippers,
enchanted beasts and long-haired princesses, a wolf is lurking, who
threatens to destroy the members of the salon one by one. Brilliant
and bawdy, romantic and provocative, The Modern Fairies is a
dazzling novel inspired by real events, about the delights and
dangers of storytelling in dark times.'Funny, filthy, dancingly
clever: a delectable confection of many-layered pleasures. A story
of stories, storytellers, and the lurking dangers of fairytales. It
reminded me of Jeanette Winterson's The Passion, and I gobbled it
all up' JOANNA QUINN, author of The Whalebone Theatre'Original,
fantastical, historical, and unputdownable' KAREN JOY FOWLER,
Booker Prize-shortlisted author of We Are All Completely Beside
Ourselves'Pollard's future, as a novelist, is very bright indeed'
THE I, praise for Delphi
Výber kníh autorov
Penguin Books Ltd ,
Clare Pollard
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Penguin Books Ltd,
Clare Pollard
Výber kníh vydavateľa
Slovart
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Slovart
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