The Door in the Hedge
And Other Stories
Ensorcelled princesses . . . a frog that speaks . . . a magical hind-Newbery Medal winner Robin McKinley opens a door into an enchanted world in this collection of original and retold fairy talesThe last mortal kingdom before the unmeasured sweep of Faerieland begins has at best held an uneasy truce with its unpredictable neighbor. There is nothing to show a boundary, at least on the mortal side of it; and if any ordinary human creature ever saw a faerie-or at any rate recognized one-it was never mentioned; but the existence of the boundary and of faeries beyond it is never in doubt either. So begins The Stolen Princess, the first story of t…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4976-7368-7
- EAN: 9781497673687
- Produktnummer: 19299467
- Verlag: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 220 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'337 KB
Über den Autor
Robin McKinley has won various awards and citations for her writing, including the Newbery Medal for The Hero and the Crown, a Newbery Honor for The Blue Sword, and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature for Sunshine. Her other books include the New York Times bestseller Spindle’s End; two novel-length retellings of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and Rose Daughter; Deerskin, another novel-length fairy-tale retelling, of Charles Perrault’s Donkeyskin; and a retelling of the Robin Hood legend, The Outlaws of Sherwood. She lives with her husband, the English writer Peter Dickinson; three dogs (two hellhounds and one hell terror); an 1897 Steinway upright; and far too many rosebushes.
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