Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales Paperback by Tanith Lee

Author:Tanith Lee [Lee, Tanith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781607014041
Amazon: 1607014041
Publisher: Prime Books
Published: 2013-10-02T04:00:00+00:00

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I loved fairy tales when I was a child. Hans Christian Andersen’s

“The Little Mermaid” and Oscar Wilde’s “The Happy Prince” made

me cry. As I got older I was thrilled by how grim the Grimms really

were. Then came Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling’s anthologies

of reworkings and subversions, which led me on to “The Bloody

Chamber” by Angela Carter. It contains my favorite short story,

“The Tiger’s Bride,” her take on “Beauty and the Beast.” It’s dark and dangerous. It speaks of objectification, desire, and our true natures.

It’s important to me, not just as a reader, but as a writer. It made me pick up a pen.

So, I still love fairy tales. Not so long ago I bought a beautiful

copy of East of the Sun, West of the Moon, Scandinavian fairy tales collected by Peter Christen AsbjØrnsen and JØrgen Engebretsen

Moe, and illustrated by Kay Neilson. Someone I know, who will not

be named here, saw it and asked, “What are you buying children’s

books for?” If you’re reading this anthology you’re the sort of person who understands the folly of this question.

“Egg” is dedicated to my mum, Veronica Sharma. It’s a very

personal and important story to me for a number of reasons. It’s

about the difficulty of wishes. Every wish has a price. We just need to know what we’re prepared to pay.

Priya Sharma

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