Robin Mckinley

Rose Daughter

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Award-winning author Robin McKinley tells an enthralling story of magic, love, and redemption, based on the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast. Once upon a time, a wealthy merchant had three daughters. When his business failed, he moved his daughters to the countryside. The youngest daughter, Beauty, is fascinated by the thorny stems of a mysterious plant that overwhelms their neglected cottage. She tends the plant until it blossoms with the most beautiful flowers the sisters have ever seen-roses. Admiring the roses, an old woman tells Beauty, Roses are for love. And she speaks of a sorcerers' battle many years ago that left a beast in an… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4976-7369-4
EAN: 9781497673694
Produktnummer: 19820127
Verlag: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 295 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'123 KB
Sonstiges: Ab 12 - 18 J.

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.