Carol Ann Duffy's versions of Grimm include some very familiar tales - Snow White, Rumpelstiltskin, Ashputtel (Cinderella) and Little Red-cap - and some that will be new to many readers. But there will be surprising and unexpected elements in them all. The layers of varnish that have built up over the years in the re-telling of these classic folk tales have been stripped back. An award-winning poet, Carol Ann Duffy shows, unsurprisingly, an unflinching eye for the telling detail and the germane turn of phrase, so that the stories appear with all the immediacy and imaginative potency of the originals.
- ISBN13 9780571196319
- Publish Date 1 November 1999
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 5 November 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English