Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
  • Published:
    Apr-2010
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    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    Fantasy
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New edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.

Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-eight leading women writers to discuss how these stories helped shape their imaginations, their craft, and our culture. In poetic narratives, personal histories, and penetrating commentary, the assembled authors bare their soul and challenge received wisdom. Eclectic and wide-ranging, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall is essential reading for anyone who has ever been bewitched by the strange and fanciful realm of fairy tales.

Contributors include: Alice Adams, Julia Alvarez, Margaret Atwood, Ann Beattie, Rosellen Brown, A. S. Byatt, Kathryn Davis, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Deborah Eisenberg, Maria Flook, Patricia Foster, Vivian Gornick, Lucy Grealy, bell hooks, Fanny Howe, Fern Kupfer, Ursula K. Le Guin, Carole Maso, Jane Miller, Lydia Millet, Joyce Carol Oates, Connie Porter, Francine Prose, Linda Gray Sexton, Midori Snyder, Fay Weldon, Joy Williams, Terri Windling.
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    • Mar-1998
    • Anchor
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0385486812
    • ISBN13: 9780385486811
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    • Mar-1998
    • Anchor
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0385486812
    • ISBN13: 9780385486811
    • First Edition
    • Apr-2010
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307874524
    • ISBN13: 9780307874528



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