Provensen Martin - The Provensen Book Of Fairy Tales - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Now back in print a beautifully illustrated collection of twelve reimagined fairy tales including classics like " Beauty and the Beast" and literary tales like Oscar Wilde's " The Happy Prince." Alice and Martin Provensen were one of the most talented husband - and - wife author - illustrator teams of the twentieth century. A long - out - of - print cult classic first published 50 years ago The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales is a treasury of their illustrations accompanied by fairy tales from authors such as A. A. Milne Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde. Here too are clever retellings and newly imagined tales: refined old favorites like Arthur Rackham's Beauty and the Beast feminist revisions like Elinor Mordaunt's The Prince and the Goose Girl and sensitive stories by literary stylists like Henry Beston's The Lost Half - Hour and Katharine Pyle's The Dreamer. Full of magic ingenuity and humor The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales is a witty modern descendant of Grimm's Fairy Tales and a classic in its own right sure to be beloved by a new generation.
Title: The Provensen Book Of Fairy Tales
Author(s): Provensen Martin
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681375823
Pages: 136 Pages
Publication Date: 11/16/2021
Category: Children’S & Teenage Fiction & True Stories