Simplest-shop.comonline shopping, the simple way |
Welcome | Help ![]() |
| Search for |
|
Home > Books > Subjects > Parenting & Families > Literature Guides > Transformations
This website will be shutdown on 2008-04-01.
|
|
Transformations![]()
| 100% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Mariner Books Catalog: Book Release date: 2001-02-15 Media: Paperback Number of pages: 128 Ean: 9780618083435 Book Isbn: 061808343X Author:
|
|
| Top stores | Description | Price | Link to shop |
| amazon.com |
Availability: in 24 hours Current discount:20% off !! |
$10.40 | |
| used | 34 used offers, as low as... | $1.69 | see more used offers |
| all new | 43 thirdParty new offers, as low as... | $3.16 | see more ThirdParty new offers |
| collectible | 2 collectible offers, as low as... | $16.99 | see more collectible new offers |
| Professional Review: |
| These poem-stories are a strange retelling of seventeen Grimms fairy tales, including "Snow White," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Rapunzel," "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," "The Frog Prince," and "Red Riding Hood." Astonishingly, they are as wholly personal as Anne Sexton's most intimate poems. "Her metaphoric strength has never been greater -- really funny, among other things, a dark, dark laughter" (C.K. Williams). |
| User Reviews: |
|
Summary: Interesting; One can tell that this is Sexton at work. Anne Sexton is my favorite poet. This book contains many of the Grimm Brothers tales (virtually all of them), and she rewrote them to say something to us, the readers. For example, "Rumpelstiltskin", my favorite, has a message, which is the fact that many people can be two-faced; seem ugly and cruel and turn out to be beautiful and heart-warming. This book is Sexton very close to her peak! Summary: An interesting twist on fairy tales; a good read. Okay. I really, really like Anne Sexton. But, in particular, I liked this book, though it was certainly a shakeup. The story of Snow White, for instance, is one of those things that has been taken and made into part of our culture: the eeee-vil stepmother, the good dwarves, the prince. But Sexton takes it and twists it around to absolve the mother of some of the traditional jealousy; Snow White, suddenly, isn't just a poor, helpless little girl but a "dumb bunny" who takes poisonous things from the stepmother multiple times, with the same effect. This is one of those books that makes you think. |
| Comparison map |
| Wondering how the book "Transformations" relates to similar books? Find out at a glance here: |
| Price comparison |
![]() Transformations |
The Bloody Chamber |
The Classic Fairy Tales (Norton Critical Editions) |
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins |
The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton |
Snow White |
| Our price | $10.40 | $10.40 | $12.34 | $9.59 | $12.92 | $11.16 |
| List price | $13.00 | $13.00 | $18.15 | $11.99 | $19.00 | $13.95 |
| Lowest used price | $1.69 | $3.99 | $6.42 | $1.78 | $5.77 | $1.55 |
| Lowest new price | $3.16 | $7.00 | $9.99 | $5.49 | $7.78 | $5.99 |
| Collectible price | $16.99 | - | $18.15 | $11.99 | - | - |
| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 2001-02-15 | 1990-01-01 | 1999-11-04 | 1999-02-27 | 1999-04-28 | 1996-05-30 |
| Media | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 128 | 128 | 416 | 240 | 656 | 192 |
| Ean | 9780618083435 | 9780140178210 | 9780393972771 | 9780064407724 | 9780395957769 | 9780684824796 |
| Book Isbn | 061808343X | 014017821X | 0393972771 | 0064407721 | 0395957761 | 0684824795 |
| Upc | - | - | - | - | 046442957762 | - |
| Reading level | - | - | - | Young Adult | - | - |
| Link to shop* (opens in a new window) | BUY IT NOW* | BUY IT NOW* | BUY IT NOW* | BUY IT NOW* | BUY IT NOW* | BUY IT NOW* |
| take one out? |
|
I am here: Home > Books > Subjects > Parenting & Families > Literature Guides > Transformations
This website will be shutdown on 2008-04-01.
|
|
|
About the Simplest Shop | Help | Term of Use | Privacy Policy
Home | Contact us | Bookmark us | get paid for writing |
|
Copyright Simplest-Shop.com 2004. All rights reserved |