Fairy tales for the disillusioned
Subtitle: enchanted stories from the French decadent tradition
By: edited and translated by Gretchen Schultz & Lewis Seifert
Series: Oddly modern fairy tales; Oddly modern fairy tales
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780691161655
Subjects: Children's stories, French; Translations into English; French fiction; Fairy tales
Notes: "The present volume contains thirty-five fairy tales by nineteen writers, presented chronologically by author"--Introduction.

Translation from French.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Fairies' gifts  -- Charles Baudelaire; title: The fairies of France  -- Alphonse Daudet; title: Dreaming Beauty  -- Catulle Mendés; title: Isolina/Isolin  -- Catulle Mendés; title: The way to heaven  -- Catulle Mendés; title: An unsuitable guest  -- Catulle Mendés; title: The three good fairies  -- Catulle Mendés; title: The last fairy ; title: Catulle Mendés --; title: The lucky find  -- Catulle Mendés; title: The wish granted, alas!  -- Catulle Mendés; title: The suitors of Princess Mimi  -- Jules Lemaítre; title: Lietté's notions  -- Jules Lemaítre; title: On the margins of Perrault's fairy tales: the white rabbit and the four-leaf clover  -- Jules Lemaítre; title: The ogresses  -- Paul Aréne; title: Fairy Morgane's tales: Nocturne II  -- Jules Richard; title: Bluebeard's little wife  -- Marcel Schwob; title: The green she-devil  -- Marcel Schwob; title: Cice  -- Marcel Schwob; title: Mandosiane  -- Marcel Schwob; title: Fairy tales for the disillusioned  -- Willy; title: The living door knocker  -- Henri de Régnier; title: The Mortis  -- Rachilde; title: Sleeping Beauty didn't wake up  -- Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen; title: Princess of the Red Lilies  -- Jean Lorrain; title: Princess Snowflower  -- Jean Lorrain; title: Mandosiane in captivity  -- Jean Lorrain; title: Prince Charming  -- Renée Vivien; title: The story of the Prince of Valandeuse  -- Albert Mockel; title: The pleasant surprise  -- Albert Mockel; title: The last fairy  -- Pierre Veber; title: The seven wives of Bluebeard  -- Anatole France; title: The story of the Duchess of Cicogne and of Monsieur de Boulingrin  -- Anatole France; title: The 28-kilometer boots  -- Emile Bergerat; title: Cinderella arrives by automobile  -- Emile Bergerat; title: Cinderella continued, or The rat and the six lizards  -- Guillaume Apollinaire; title: Cinderella, the humble and haughty child -- Claude Cahun.