Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales

Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales
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Publisher : iUniverse
Total Pages : 131
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ISBN-10 : 9780595345212
ISBN-13 : 0595345212
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Book Synopsis Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales by : Alison Lurie

Download or read book Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales written by Alison Lurie and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleeping beauties? Not Clever Gretchen or Kate Crackernuts or Manka or any of the other young heroines in this wonderful collection of folktales. Active, witty, brave, and resourceful, these girls and young women can fight and hunt, defeat giants, answer riddles and outwit the devil. These stories are usually left out of the popular collections of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when women were supposed to be beautiful, innocent, and passive.


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