num_pages: 192
description: The Grimm brothers’ fairy tales have long fascinated readers with their violence and frank sexuality. Three of Britain’s most important novelists, Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, and A. S. Byatt, have shared this fascination. Their fiction explores the darker themes of fairy tales – bestiality, cannibalism, and incest – and finds within them reasons to be optimistic about our fractured modern world.
language: English
title: Fairy Tales and the Fiction of Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, and A. S. Byatt
titlecomplete: Fairy Tales and the Fiction of Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, and A. S. Byatt (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature)
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers