Secrets beyond the Door
Subtitle: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780691127835
Subjects: Children's literature studies: general; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Children's Literature - General; Comparative Literature; Literary Criticism & Collections / Children's Literature; General
First sentence: whose problem-solving skills and psychological finesse make her a shrewd detective, capable of rescuing herself and often her marriage in the bargain. But she can also be seen as a figure who wants to know too much, whose curiosity represents a betrayal of trust, as Edna St. Vincent Millay suggests in a Bluebeard poem: "And you did so profane me when you crept/Unto the threshold of this room to-night."