White as Snow
10 best books like White as Snow (Tanith Lee): Rose Daughter, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins, The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold, Winter Rose, Deerskin, Tam Lin, Snow White and Rose Red, Snow: A Retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Bridge, The Panopticon
| Author | Robin McKinley |
| ISBN | 0441005837 |
It is the heart of this place, and it is dying, says the Beast. And it is true; the center of the Beast's palace, the glittering glasshouse that brings Beauty both comfort and delight in her strange new environment, is filled with leafless brown rosebushes. But deep within this enchanted world, new life,...
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
| Author | Emma Donoghue |
| ISBN | 0064407721 |
Thirteen tales are unspun from the deeply familiar, and woven anew into a collection of fairy tales that wind back through time. Acclaimed Irish author Emma Donoghue reveals heroines young and old in unexpected alliances--sometimes treacherous, sometimes erotic, but always courageous. Told with...
| Author | Francesca Lia Block |
| ISBN | 0064407454 |
With language that is both lyrical and distinctly her own, Francesca Lia Block turns nine fairy tales inside out.
Escaping the poisoned apple, Snow frees herself from possession to find the truth of love in an unexpected place.
A club girl from L.A., awakening from a long sleep to the...
| Author | Patricia A. McKillip |
| ISBN | 0441004385 |
Sorrow and trouble and bitterness will bound you and yours and the children of yours...
Some said the dying words of Nial Lynn, murdered by his own son, were a wicked curse. To others, it was a winter's tale spun by firelight on cold, dark nights. But when Corbet Lynn came to rebuild his family estate,...
| Author | Robin McKinley |
| ISBN | 0441012396 |
As Princess Lissla Lissar reaches womanhood, it is clear to all the kingdom that in her beauty she is the image of her dead mother, the queen. But this likeness forces her to flee from her father's lust and madness; and in the pain and horror of that flight she forgets who she is and what it is she flees from:...
In the ancient Scottish ballad Tam Lin, headstrong Janet defies Tam Lin to walk in her own land of Carterhaugh . . . and then must battle the Queen of Faery for possession of her lover’s body and soul.
In this version of Tam Lin Janet is a college student, "Carterhaugh" is Carter Hall at the university...
| Author | Patricia C. Wrede |
| ISBN | 0812534972 |
THE FAIRY TALE SERIES — Created by Terri Windling — ONCE UPON A TIME... — ...fairy tales were written for young and old alike; it is only in the last century that they have been deemed fit only for children and stripped of much of their original violence, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight....
| Author | Tracy Lynn |
| ISBN | 1416940154 |
"ONCE UPON A TIME"
IS TIMELESS
The Duchess Jessica's childhood began with a tragedy: her mother's death. Her father, heartbroken at the loss of his beloved wife, could not bear to raise the child. Largely ignored, Jessica spent the first eleven years of her life running free on the family...
| Author | Iain Banks |
| ISBN | 0316858544 |
A darkly brilliant novel of self-discovery the cutting edge of experimental fiction. It leads from nowhere to nowhere, the mysterious world-spanning structure on which everyone seems to live. Rescued from the sea, devoid of personality or memory, all John Orr knows is the Bridge, his persistent...
| Author | Jenni Fagan |
| ISBN | 0434021776 |
Pa`nop´ti`con ( noun). A circular prison with cells so constructed that the prisoners can be observed at all times. [Greek panoptos 'seen by all'] Anais Hendricks, fifteen, is in the back of a police car, headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders. She can't remember the events that...
| Author | A.S. Byatt |
| ISBN | 0679762221 |
The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty...
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Inflated Footnotes: "Lanark - A Life in Four Books" by Alasdair Gray
(Original Review, 1981-03-10)
I don't have problem with intertextual interpretation as such. It's only that...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 9722900781 |
Fascínio é o termo exacto para caracterizar esta obra apaixonante baseada num tema que há séculos vem fazendo sonhar gerações e gerações: a lenda do Rei Artur e dos Cavaleiros da Távola Redonda. Ainda que pouco ou nada se saiba sobre mitos, rituais mágicos e esoterismo, deste livro ninguém...
| Author | James Robertson |
| ISBN | 1841151890 |
An impressive debut from an exciting new Scottish voice – a stunning novel about history, identity and redemption. A no. 2 best-seller in Scotland.
It is Spring 1997 and Hugh Hardie needs a ghost for his Tours of Old Edinburgh. Andrew Carlin is the perfect candidate. So, with cape, stick and...
| Author | James Robertson |
| ISBN | 0007150253 |
Exiled to Jamaica after the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Sir John Wedderburn made a fortune, alongside his three brothers, as a faux surgeon and sugar planter. In the 1770s, he returned to Scotland to marry and re-establish the family name. He brought with him Joseph Knight, a black slave and a token of...
| Author | Gregory Frost |
| ISBN | 0765301954 |
The tale of Bluebeard, reenvisioned as a dark fable of faith and truth
1843 is the “last year of the world,” according the Elias Fitcher, a charismatic preacher in the Finger Lakes district of New York State. He's established a utopian community on an estate outside the town of Jeckyll's...
| Author | Elspeth Barker |
| ISBN | 0140154728 |
The sixteen years of Janet's life begin on a fogbound winter night in wartime Edinburgh. Her father, home on leave, peering into the blue wicker basket, comments, "It's about the size of a cat." Later, as sibling after sibling appears, Janet finds herself slipping further and further toward the periphery...
