An edition of Mirror Mirror: A Novel (2003)

Mirror mirror

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An edition of Mirror Mirror: A Novel (2003)

Mirror mirror

1st ed.
  • 3.3 (6 ratings) ·
  • 27 Want to read
  • 10 Have read

A retelling of "Snow White" set in Renaissance Italy draws a link between the original fairy tale and the Borgia family's infamous practice of poisoning its enemies.

Publish Date
Publisher
Regan Books
Language
English
Pages
280

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Mirror Mirror
Mirror Mirror
2010, Headline Book Publishing
paperback
Cover of: Mirror Mirror
Mirror Mirror: A Novel
March 23, 2010, Harper Paperbacks
Paperback
Cover of: Mirror Mirror
Mirror Mirror: A Novel
September 28, 2004, Harper Paperbacks
in English
Cover of: Mirror mirror
Mirror mirror
2003, Regan Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Mirror Mirror
Mirror Mirror
2003, HarperCollins
Electronic resource in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York, NY
Genre
Adaptations., Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3563.A3535 M67 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
280 p. ;
Number of pages
280

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3684918M
Internet Archive
mirrormirror0000magu_r9h0
ISBN 10
006039384X
LCCN
2003046774
OCLC/WorldCat
52134556
Library Thing
5840
Goodreads
430787

Work Description

E-Book Extra: “Little Snow-White” by the Brothers Grimm (read the original version of the classic fairy tale)Think you know who's the fairest of them all? Think again. Bestselling re-imaginer of classic fairy tales sets the Snow White story in Renaissance Italy, where the madly vain Lucrezia Borgia plots a dire fate for seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada (a.k.a. Snow White).A lyrical work of stunning creative vision, Mirror Mirror is set in Renaissance Italy, where Gregory Maguire draws a connection between the poison apple in the original Snow White story and the Borgia family's well-known appetite for poisoning its foes.In Mirror Mirror Snow White is called Bianca de Nevada. She is born on a farm in Tuscany in 1495, and when she is seven, her father is ordered by the duplicitous Cesare Borgia to go on a quest to reclaim the relic of the original Tree of Knowledge, a branch bearing three living apples that are thousands of years old. Bianca is left in the care of her father's farm staff and the beautiful -- and madly vain -- Lucrecia Borgia, Cesare's sister. But Lucrecia becomes jealous of her lecherous brother's interest in the growing child and plots a dire fate for Bianca in the woods below the farm. There Bianca finds herself in the home of seven dwarves -- the creators of the magic mirror -- who await the return of their brother, the eighth dwarf, long gone on a quest of his own.In the evocative style of Maguire's earlier novels, Mirror Mirror is a fresh, compelling take on a beloved classic tale.

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