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From USA Today bestselling author comes an original, subversive fairytale about a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways, perfect for fans of Alix E. Harrow and Katharine Arden.There's a princess trapped in a tower. This isn't her story.Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple, right?If only.Centuries later, a knight approaches a towering wall of brambles, where the thorns are as thick as your arm and as sharp as swords. He's heard there's a curse here that needs breaking, but it's a curse Toadling will do anything to uphold...
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Additional ISBN/GTIN9781803364261
Product TypeE-book
BindingE-book
FormatEPUB
FormatReflowable
PublisherTitan Books
Publication townLondon
Publication countryUnited Kingdom
Publishing date15/08/2023
LanguageEnglish
File size1408024 Bytes
Article no.12133155
CatalogsVC
Data source no.4417383
Product groupBU114
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Jede:r von uns hat ihren/seinen liebsten Märchenkreis, nicht wahr? Den beiden Norwegern Peter Christen Asbjørnsen und Jørgen Moe ist es zu verdanken, dass im 19. Jahrhundert nach Vorbild der Brüder Grimm ein unwahrscheinlich großer Märchenschatz zusammengetragen und veröffentlicht wurde. Die Nationalromantische Phase hatte auch die Norweger:innen ergriffen und nur zu recht. Als Kenner:in der 'deutschen' Märchentexte wird man hier viele Parallelen entdecken - typische Anfangs- und Endfloskeln, magische Wesen, mehrgliedrige Kämpfe, christliche Elemente und eine manchmal etwas absurd erscheinende Zahlensymbolik.
Wenn ihr beim Thema Norwegen vor allem an dichte Wälder, Fjorde, wortkarge Menschen und Trolle denkt, dann sind das Elemente, die bereits in solchen, aus dem Mittelalter stammenden Texten tradiert werden. Literatur- und kulturhistorische Perspektiven und Sichtweisen lohnen hier, zur Anwendung gebracht zu werden.
This story jumps on the current mythology trend (see Madeline Miller's books!) and is a loose retelling of an old British murder ballad called The Twa Sisters .
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Of the three sisters Keyne is my favorite - I rooted for her all through the plot. Who is yours?!

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T. Kingfisher is the adult fiction pseudonym of Ursula Vernon, the multi-award-winning author of Digger and Dragonbreath. She is an author and illustrator based in North Carolina who has been nominated for the Ursa Major Award, the Eisner Awards, and has won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story for "Jackalope Wives" in 2015 and the Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "The Tomato Thief" in 2017. Her debut adult horror novel, The Twisted Ones, won the 2020 Dragon Award for Best Horror Novel, and was followed by the critically acclaimed The Hollow Places.

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