{"product_id":"the-collected-enchantments-9781956522020","title":"The Collected Enchantments","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This vibrant collection brings together World Fantasy Award winner Goss's exquisite interpretations of and variations on familiar folk and fairy tales. The 48 poems and 25 stories span the length of Goss's career ... All approach well-known stories from unexpected angles and with deep empathy for the characters ... The abundance of pieces sometimes has the effect of a musical fugue: common motifs, places, and characters echo through the works, with each reappearance adding something fresh.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eA wicked stepsister frets over all the ways in which she failed to receive her mother's love. A lost woman travels through an enchanted forest looking for someone who can remind her of her name. A girl must wear down seven pairs of shoes to gain help from a witch. A fox makes a life with a human, but neither can deny their true natures. A young woman returns to her childhood home and the fantastic stories she left there. A man lets himself be taken prisoner by the Snow Queen to prove that the woman who loves him would walk barefoot through the ice to save him. Medusa cuts her hair for love.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Collected Enchantments\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e gathers retellings of folk and fairy tales in prose and verse from World Fantasy and Locus award-winning author Theodora Goss, creator of The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series. Drawing from her Mythopoeic Award-nominated collections \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the Forest of Forgetting\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSongs for Ophelia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e and her Mythopoeic Award-winning tome \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSnow White Learns Witchcraft\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, and adding new and uncollected stories and poems, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Collected Enchantments\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e provides a resounding demonstration of how, as Hugo and Nebula award winner Jo Walton writes, Goss provides \"a vivid, authentic and important voice\" that, in the words of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association Grand Master Jane Yolen, \"transposes, transforms, and transcends times, eras, and old tales with ease.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"In the tradition of great modern fantasists like Angela Carter and Marina Warner, Theodora Goss's sublime tales are modern classics-beautiful, sly, sensual and deeply moving . . . I envy any reader encountering Goss's work for the first time.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-Elizabeth Hand, winner of the Mythopoeic, Nebula, Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy awards\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith cover art by Catrin Welz-Stein and interior black and white illustrations by Paula Arwen Owen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mythic Delirium Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781956522020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 436\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.97d","brand":"Theodora Goss","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42573344702645,"sku":"9781956522020","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ef1c8123-f959-46f0-87f7-80713df82ca8.jpg?v=1672156846","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-collected-enchantments-9781956522020","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}