Mirror Mirror - Hardcover

Maguire, Gregory

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006039384X ISBN 13: 9780060393847

Verlag: HarperCollins, 2003

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Book by Maguire Gregory

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A retelling of "Snow White" by the author of Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and Wicked is set in Renaissance Italy and draws a link between the original fairy tale and the Borgia family's infamous practice of poisoning its enemies. 100,000 first printing.

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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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• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 006039384X
• ISBN 13: 9780060393847
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304