The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales - ed. Alison Lurie

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The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales
Edited by Alison Lurie
Read by Kristin Allison
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Book Description

The stories of magic and transformation that we call fairy tales are among the oldest known forms of literature, and are also among the most popular. “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “Little Red Ridinghood”–these ageless tales seem to have been written an almost magically long
time ago. Yet fairy tales are still being created to this very day. And while they are principally directed to children and have child protagonists, these modern fairy tales, like the classics, have messages to those of all ages.
In The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales, Alison Lurie has collected forty tales that date from the late nineteenth century up to the present. Here are trolls and princesses, magic and mayhem, morals to be told and lessons to be learned–all the elements of the classic fairy tale, in new and
fantastical trappings. In Charles Dickens’s “The Magic Fishbone,” we find an unusually pragmatic princess who uses her one wish only after she has tried to solve her family’s problems through hard work. Angela Carter’s “The Courtship of Mr. Lyon” is a “Beauty and the Beast” tale with a contemporary
twist, in which Beauty leaves Beast to live the high life, becoming a society brat who “smiled at herself in mirrors too much.” And in T.H. White’s “The Troll,” we find out how his father killed the troll that tried to eat him.
In these enchanting pages we also see how modern writers have taken the classic fairy tale and adapted it to their times in a variety of ways. Francis Browne, for example, takes a poke at Victorian standards of beauty in “The Story of Fairyfoot,” about a young prince who is cast out of the kingdom
of Stumpinghame because, unlike the fashion of the town, his feet are too small. Some writers, such as Ursula Le Guin, have taken familiar myths and turned them upside down. In Le Guin’s “The Wife’s Story,” a mother sees the horrible transformation of her husband into “the hateful one”, and then
watches her sister and neighbors mob and kill this “creature whose hair had begun to come away all over his body…the eyes gone blue…staring at me out of that flat, soft, white face.” And L.F. Baum’s “The Queen of Quok,” contains a castle and royal characters in a kingdom run by common sense and
small-town American values. At one point the boy king of Quok has to borrow a dime from his counselor to buy a ham sandwich, and greed transforms his young queen-to-be into a haggard old woman.
With tales from the likes of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Carl Sandburg, James Thurber, Donald Barthelme, Louise Erdrich, and many more, The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales brings us through the modern-day world of the supernatural, the mystical, the moral, and reminds us that fairy
tales are still very much alive.

Stories in this collection:

01) Introduction by Alison Lurie
02) Uncle David’s Nonsensical Story About Giants and Fairies by Catherine Sinclair
03) Feathertop: A Moralized Legend by Nathaniel Hawthorne
04) The King of the Golden River or The Black Brothers by John Ruskin
05) The Story of Fairyfoot by Frances Browne
06) The Light Princess by George MacDonald
07) The Magic Fishbone by Charles Dickens
08) A Toy Princess by Mary de Morgan
09) The New Mother by Lucy Clifford
10) Good Luck Is Better Than Gold by Juliana Horatia Ewing
11) The Apple of Contentment by Howard Pyle
12) The Griffin and the Minor Canon by Frank R. Stockton
13) The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
14) The Rooted Lover by Laurence Housman
15) The Song of the Morrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
16) The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame
17) The Book of Beasts by E. Nesbit
18) The Queen of Quok by L. Frank Baum
19) The Magic Shop by H. G. Wells
20) The Kith of the Elf-Folk by Lord Dunsany
21) The Story of Blixie Bimber and the Power of the Gold Buckskin Whincher by Carl Sandburg
22) The Lovely Myfanwy by Walter de la Mare
23) The Troll by T. H. White
24) Gertrude’s Child by Richard Hughes
25) The Unicorn in the Garden by James Thurber
26) Bluebeard’s Daughter by Sylvia Townsend Warner
27) The Chaser by John Collier
28) The King of the Elves by Philip K. Dick
29) In the Family by Naomi Mitchison
30) The Jewbird by Bernard Malamud
31) Menaseh’s Dream by Isaac Bashevis Singer
32) The Glass Mountain by Donald Barthelme
33) Prince Amilec by Tanith Lee
34) Petronella by Jay Williams
35) The Man Who Had Seen the Rope Trick by Joan Aiken
36) The Courtship of Mr Lyon by Angela Carter
37) The Princess Who Stood on Her Own Two Feet by Jeanne Desy
38) The Wife’s Story by Ursula K. Le Guin
39) The River Maid by Jane Yolen
40) The Porcelain Man by Richard Kennedy
41) Old Man Potchikoo by Louise Erdrich
42) Biographical Notes