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Rags & bones, new twists on timeless tales, edited by Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt

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Rags & bones, new twists on timeless tales, edited by Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt

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eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Rags & bones

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

edited by Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt

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Accelerated Reader, UG, 5.9, 16, 167454

Sub title

new twists on timeless tales

Summary

"In this collection, award-winning and bestselling authors reimagine their favorite classic stories, the ones that have inspired, awed, and enraged them, the ones that have become ingrained in modern culture, and the ones that have been too long overlooked"--Dust jacket flap

Table Of Contents

Introduction / by Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt -- That the machine may progress eternally / by Carrie Ryan, inspired by E.M. Forster's The machine stops -- The king of Elfland's daughter / by Charles Vess -- Losing her divinity / by Garth Nix, inspired by Rudyard Kipling's The man who would be king -- The sleeper and the spindle / by Neil Gaiman, inspired by Sleeping Beauty -- King Lung's golden hours / by Charles Vess -- The cold corner / by Tim Pratt, inspired by Henry James's The jolly corner -- Millcara / by Holly Black, inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla -- Figures of earth / by Charles Vess -- When first we were gods / by Rick Yancey, inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's The birth-mark -- Sirocco / by Margaret Stohl, inspired by Horace Walpole's The castle of Otranto -- The shaving of shagpat / by Charles Vess -- Awakened / by Melissa Marr, inspired by Kate Chopin's The awakening -- New Chicago / by Kelley Armstrong, inspired by W.W. Jacobs's The monkey's paw -- The wood beyond the world / by Charles Vess -- The soul collector / by Kami Garcia, inspired by the Brothers Grimm's Rumpelstiltskin -- Without faith, without law, without joy / by Saladin Ahmed, inspired by Sir Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene -- Goblin market / by Charles Vess -- Uncaged / by Gene Wolf, inspired by William B. Seabrook's The caged white werewolf of the Saraban

Target audience

adolescent

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Rags and bones, new twists on timeless tales

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