Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales by Carter, Angela -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Copyright Publisher’s Note Contents Introduction Sermerssuaq 1. Brave, Bold and Wilful

The Search for Luck Mr Fox Kakuarshuk The Promise Kate Crackernuts The Fisher-Girl and the Crab

2. Clever Women, Resourceful Girls and Desperate Stratagems

Maol a Chliobain The Wise Little Girl Blubber Boy The Girl Who Stayed in the Fork of a Tree The Princess in the Suit of Leather The Hare Mossycoat Vasilisa the Priest’s Daughter The Pupil The Rich Farmer’s Wife Keep Your Secrets The Three Measures of Salt The Resourceful Wife Aunt Kate’s Goomer-Dust The Battle of the Birds Parsley-girl Clever Gretel The Furburger

3. Sillies

A Pottle o’ Brains Young Man in the Morning Now I Should Laugh, If I Were Not Dead The Three Sillies The Boy Who Had Never Seen Women The Old Woman Who Lived in a Vinegar Bottle Tom Tit Tot The Husband Who Was to Mind the House

4. Good Girls and Where it Gets them

East o’ the Sun and West o’ the Moon The Good Girl and the Ornery Girl The Armless Maiden

5. Witches

The Chinese Princess The Cat-Witch The Baba Yaga Mrs Number Three

6. Unhappy Families

The Girl Who Banished Seven Youths The Market of the Dead The Woman Who Married Her Son’s Wife The Little Red Fish and the Clog of Gold The Wicked Stepmother Tuglik and Her Granddaughter The Juniper Tree Nourie Hadig Beauty and Pock Face Old Age

7. Moral Tales

Little Red Riding Hood Feet Water Wives Cure Boastfulness Tongue Meat The Woodcutter’s Wealthy Sister Escaping Slowly Nature’s Ways The Two Women Who Found Freedom How a Husband Weaned His Wife from Fairy Tales

8. Strong Minds and Low Cunning

The Twelve Wild Ducks Old Foster Šāhīn The Dog’s Snout People The Old Woman Against the Stream The Letter Trick Rolando and Brunilde The Greenish Bird The Crafty Woman

9. Up to Something – Black Arts and Dirty Tricks

Pretty Maid Ibronka Enchanter and Enchantress The Telltale Lilac Bush Tatterhood The Witchball The Werefox The Witches’ Piper Vasilissa the Fair The Midwife and the Frog

10. Beautiful People

Fair, Brown and Trembling Diirawic and Her Incestuous Brother The Mirror The Frog Maiden The Sleeping Prince The Orphan

11. Mothers and Daughters

Achol and Her Wild Mother Tunjur, Tunjur The Little Old Woman with Five Cows Achol and Her Adoptive Lioness-Mother

12. Married Women

Story of a Bird Woman Father and Mother Both ‘Fast’ Reason to Beat Your Wife The Three Lovers The Seven Leavenings The Untrue Wife’s Song The Woman Who Married Her Son Duang and His Wild Wife A Stroke of Luck The Beans in the Quart Jar

13. Useful Stories

A Fable of a Bird and Her Chicks The Three Aunts Tale of an Old Woman The Height of Purple Passion Salt, Sauce and Spice, Onion Leaves, Pepper and Drippings Two Sisters and the Boa Spreading the Fingers

Afterword by Marina Warner Notes on Parts 1–7 by Angela Carter Notes on Parts 8–13 by Angela Carter and Shahrukh Husain Acknowledgements For Parts 1–7 Acknowledgements For Parts 8–13