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Variations on a Tale eBook Series

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  • Absent Roses

    Sleeping Beauty and the old roots of a new story

    by Marcus Attwater ...
    Series Book 1 - Variations on a Tale
    It was a time of contracts, of rights and duties, payment and punishment…A queen keeps the desperate promise she makes to the godmother of her unborn child. A duke’s son is destined to cut himself on a sword and die before he grows up. An entire economy is derailed when the king forbids spinning throughout the land. A young princess recounts how she finds herself in a foreign court more than a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Tree and Leaf

    Including MYTHOPOEIA

    by J. R. R. Tolkien ...
    Repackaged to feature Tolkien’s own painting of the Tree of Amalion, this collection includes his famous essay, ‘On Fairy-stories’ and the story that exemplifies this, ‘Leaf by Niggle’, together with the poem ‘Mythopoeia’ and the verse drama, ‘The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth’, which tells of the events following the disastrous Battle of Maldon.Fairy-stories are not just for children, as anyone who ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Haunted Castles

    The Complete Gothic Stories

    by Ray Russell ...
    Series series Penguin Horror
    **A stunningly creepy deluxe hardcover edition with spot gloss, black sprayed edges, black-stained pages, and black endpapers.Part of a six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro.**Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

    Edited by Helen Cooper ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The finest translation in and for our time' (Kevin Crossley-Holland) Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, with its intricate plot of enchantment and betrayal is probably the most skilfully told story in the whole of the English Arthurian cycle. Originating from the north-west midlands of England, it is based on two separate and very ancient Celtic motifs of the Beheading and the Exchange of Winnings, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Perilous Enchantment

    The True History of Faeries

    by Sarah Clegg ...
    A compendium of fairies and fairy lore through the centuries, told through a magical year in search of the fae from the author of the “remarkable” (Literary Review) Woman’s Lore.Fairy stories and fae lore are ancient—yet fairy stories continue to transform and enthrall our imaginations generation after generation. From Tolkien’s elves to Sarah J. Maas’s high fae, storytellers have reinterpreted ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    Translated by Bernard O'Donoghue ...
    by Bernard O'Donoghue ...
    Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter. The mighty knight presents a challenge to the court: he will allow himself to be struck by one blow, on the condition that he will be allowed to return the strike on the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Rose by Any Other Name

    by Mary McMyne ...
    ★ “A fascinating fictional exposé [with] a touch of mysticism and an LGBTQ twist."--Booklist (starred review)★ “A delightfully impish heroine... a tempestuous erotic connection... a captivating imagining of the life of the Dark Lady, the illusive inspiration for Shakespeare's later sonnets."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)My name has only been whispered, heretofore…England, 1591. Rose R... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Women of the Fairy Tale Resistance

    The Forgotten Founding Mothers of the Fairy Tale and the Stories That They Spun

    by Jane Harrington ...
    Long before The Brothers Grimm, there was a sisterhood of writers who defied the patriarchy and launched a literary craze with their feminist fairy tales—these are their stories.In 17th century Paris, a group of women who called themselves conteuses (female storytellers) came together to weave the very first fairy tales. One of them, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, coined the term ‘fairy tale,’ and some ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Sleeping Beauty

    by Charles Perrault, Brothers Grimm ...
    With a kiss, a sleeping princess is awakened from her cursed sleep. Charles Perrault’s “The Sleeping Beauty” and the Brothers Grimm’s “Little Briar Rose” tell the tale of a beautiful princess and a peaceful kingdom that fall under the spell of a jealous fairy bent on revenge.The story of the Sleeping Beauty has enchanted the young and the young-at-heart for centuries, and has served as the ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

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  • Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'Happiness beyond all words! A life of peace and love, entire and whole!'A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Green Knight (Movie Tie-In)

    Translated by Bernard O'Donoghue ...
    by Bernard O'Donoghue ...
    The inspiration for the major motion picture The Green Knight starring Dev Patel, an early English poem of magic, chivalry and seduction.Composed during the fourteenth century in the English Midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight describes the events that follow when a mysterious green-coloured knight rides into King Arthur's Camelot in deep mid-winter. The mighty knight presents a challenge to ... Read more

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  • Wonder Tales

    Six Stories of Enchantment

    by Marina Warner ...
    Marina Warner has gathered together a magical collection of fairy tales by the great women storytellers of the 17th and 18th centuries. These are passionate, extraordinary, and occasionally proto-feminist retellings of classic fairy stories by women who ingeniously used the fairy tale genre to comment on their own times and experiences. The stories are all in superb new translations by celebrated ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD