tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968132365438511409.post9139564013248407157..comments2024-03-29T04:23:31.740-05:00Comments on Tales of Faerie: SirensKristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097525403940409218noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968132365438511409.post-27780834752005589542012-07-05T12:45:37.116-05:002012-07-05T12:45:37.116-05:00This sounds like a fantastic book-I'd love to ...This sounds like a fantastic book-I'd love to have a copy! Thank you so much for the opportunity!Kristinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16600342068882301007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968132365438511409.post-32167846228701165252012-07-02T14:48:13.413-05:002012-07-02T14:48:13.413-05:00ps -- there is a re-telling of The Little Mermaid ...ps -- there is a re-telling of The Little Mermaid in the collection too :)Jessica Pellienhttp://press.princeton.edunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968132365438511409.post-51913350745736456472012-07-02T14:47:03.426-05:002012-07-02T14:47:03.426-05:00I am researching writers and possible book reviewe...I am researching writers and possible book reviewers who appreciate fairy tales for grown-ups and I ran across your site. I hope you will consider having a look at a book we are publishing in Oddly Modern Fairy Tales, a book series edited by Jack Zipes. The Fairies Return is a compilation of re-written fairy tales assembled by Peter Davies (one of J.M. Barrie’s adopted sons) and assembled in Britain during the time following World War 1. Davies assembled an all-star cast of writers to re-tell tales like Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, the Little Mermaid, and The Thousand and One Nights and the resulting book offers, in the words of Maria Tatar who edits and writes a lengthy introduction to this 21st century edition, “sophisticated fare for adults rather than primal entertainment for children… it delivers on the promise of what ‘satire’ originally meant.”<br /><br />We are delighted to include this book in our Oddly Modern Fairy Tales series alongside Kurt Schwitters’s Lucky Hans and other Merz Fairy Tales and The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales by Béla Balázs. We often think of the “cracked” fairy tale as a modern arrival, but these books testify to a long-history of “playing” with these classic tales. <br /><br />I would love to send you a copy of The Fairies Return: Or, New Tales for Old, collected by Peter Davies, edited and with an introduction by Maria Tatar. Please let me know if you would like to see a copy and I will arrange a copy of the book later this summer (availability is September). I can also supply additional review copies of the earlier books in the series if needed, too.<br /><br />There is more info about The Fairies Return here: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9826.html <br /><br />Thank you so much for considering this,<br /><br />Best,<br />Jessica Pellien<br />Princeton University Press<br />jessica_pellien@press.princeton.eduJessica Pellienhttp://press.princeton.edunoreply@blogger.com