Sleeping beauties? Not Clever Gretchen or Kate Crackernuts or Manka or any of the other young heroines in this wonderful collection of folktales. Active, witty,

Presents retellings of European folktales that feature heroines who fight and hunt, defeat giants, answer riddles, and rescue all sorts of friends and relatives

Poor Hans marries the mayor's daughter after promising that in seven years he will go off with an evil dwarf unless he is able to pose a question the dwarf cann

Seventy- nine tales that show how riddles pervade storytelling worldwide

A husband’s affair pushes a suburban wife to her breaking point in this “near perfect comedy of manners” by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Real Pe