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Mirror Mirror
by Maguire, Gregory
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 006039384X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060393847
- Seller
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About This Item
Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. ...; ...; . . Hardcover. Regan/Harper Collins, 2003. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Fine Book in Fine Dust Jacket. Price Intact. Overall, a clean and tight copy. . Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. .
Synopsis
E-Book Extra: “Little Snow-White” by the Brothers Grimm (read the original version of the classic fairy tale)Think you know who's the fairest of them all? Think again. Bestselling re-imaginer of classic fairy tales sets the Snow White story in Renaissance Italy, where the madly vain Lucrezia Borgia plots a dire fate for seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada (a.k.a. Snow White).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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- Bookseller
- HousatonicBooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033418
- Title
- Mirror Mirror
- Author
- Maguire, Gregory
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover; First Printing
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 006039384X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060393847
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2003
- Bookseller catalogs
- General & Literary Fiction;
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