The outspoken princess and the gentle knight : a treasury of modern fairy tales /
Fifteen modern fairy tales. In Richard Kennedy's The Dark Princess, a blind princess offers her hand to the man who will give up his eyesight for her, while in Jane Yolen's The White Seal Maid, the protagonist seduces a human to produce males for an all-female seal colony.
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New York :
Bantam Books,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Little Polly Riding Hood / Catherine Storr
- The gentle knight / Richard Schickel
- The faithful bull / Ernest Hemingway
- The signal / Jack Sendak
- Princess Dahli / Tanith Lee
- Molly Mullett / Patricia Coombs
- Gudgekin the Thistle Girl / John Gardner
- The Cat-King's daughter / Lloyd Alexander
- The White Seal Maid / Jane Yolen
- The dark princess / Richard Kennedy
- Petronella / Jay Williams
- The wrestling princess / Judy Corbalis
- The enchanter's daughter / Antonia Barber
- The story of the eldest princess / A. S. Byatt
- The outspoken princess / Dov Mir.