Slipper

von Hester Velmans

378 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Meet the woman who will inspire the author of the world's most famous story:Lucinda, a penniless English orphan, is abused and exploited as a cinder-sweep by her aristocratic relatives. On receiving her sole inheritance—a pair of glass-beaded slippers—she runs away to France in pursuit of an officer on whom she has a big crush. She joins the baggage train of Louis XIV’s army, survives a horrific massacre, and eventually finds her way to Paris. There she befriends the man who will some day write the world’s best loved fairy tale, Charles Perrault.There is much more: a witch hunt, the sorry truth about daydreams, and some truly astonishing revelations, such as the historical facts behind the story of the Emperor's new clothes, and a perfectly reasonable explanation for the compulsion some young women have to kiss frogs.This is not the fairy tale you remember.

• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre
• ISBN: 9780999475607
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.04.2018
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: van Horton Books