- Juvenile fiction, Fairy tales, Fiction, Fantasy
The evil fairy Pernicia has set a curse on Princess Briar-Rose: she is fated to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into an endless, poisoned sleep. Katriona, a young fairy, kidnaps the princess in order to save her; she and her aunt raise the child in their small village, where no one knows her true identity. But Pernicia is looking for her, intent on revenge for a defeat four hundred years old. Robin McKinley's masterful version of Sleeping Beauty is, like all of her work, a remarkable literary feat.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Robin McKinley
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 415
- Publisher
- Ace, Scholastic, ACE Books
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- heb, English
- ISBN
- 9780613734776
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“The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust.”
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