Snow White Learns Witchcraft, Theodora Goss
Snow White Learns Witchcraft, Theodora Goss
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Snow White Learns Witchcraft
Stories and Poems

Author: Theodora Goss

Narrator: Esther Wane

Unabridged: 7 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/28/2020

Synopsis

A young woman hunts for her wayward shadow at the school where she first learned magic—while another faces a test she never studied for as ice envelopes the world. The tasks assigned a bookish boy lead him to fateful encounters with lizards, owls, trolls, and a feisty, sarcastic cat. A bear wedding is cause for celebration, the spinning wheel and the tower in the briar hedge get to tell their own stories, and a kitchenmaid finds out that a lost princess is more than she seems. The sea witch reveals what she hoped to gain when she took the mermaid's voice. A wiser Snow White sets out to craft herself a new tale.

In these eight stories and twenty-three poems, World Fantasy Award winner Theodora Goss retells and recasts fairy tales by Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Oscar Wilde. Sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious, always lyrical, the works gathered in Snow White Learns Witchcraft re-center and empower the women at the heart of these timeless narratives. Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Jane Yolen, in her introduction, proclaims that Goss "transposes, transforms, and transcends times, eras, and old tales with ease. But also there is a core of tough magic that runs through all her pieces like a river through Faerie . . . I am ready to reread some of my new favorites."

About Theodora Goss

Theodora Goss is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of many publications, including the short story collection In the Forest of Forgetting; Interfictions, a short story anthology coedited with Delia Sherman; Voices from Fairyland, a poetry anthology with critical essays and a selection of her own poems; The Thorn and the Blossom, a novella in a two-sided accordion format; and the poetry collection Songs for Ophelia. She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, Seiun, and Mythopoeic Awards, as well as on the Tiptree Award Honor List, and her work has been translated into eleven languages. She teaches literature and writing at Boston University and in the Stonecoast MFA Program.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jo on February 16, 2021

This is an amazing vibrant valuable collection of real fairytales. When I was trying to think what to say about this book -- I was asked to blurb it -- I kept coming back to that word, real. There are a lot of fairytale retellings out there, and they're reinterpretations, reimaginings, putting in th......more

Goodreads review by Craig on April 25, 2019

This is a terrific collection of eight stories and twenty-three poems with the shared theme of re-told folk or fairy tales. They strike me excellent literary works, both singly and as a whole. The poetry is narrative, some more classically structured and others more free formed, and is just as enjoy......more

Goodreads review by Josh on December 03, 2018

*ARC received from NetGalley* With Snow White Learns Witchcraft Theodora Goss focuses her vast affinity for myth and fairy tales on stories that are both familiar and unexpected. Combining stories and poems, this collection contains characters that are easily recognized--though maybe not quite as we......more

Goodreads review by Kelsey on June 07, 2019

I received a digital ARC from the publisher via NetGalley. This collection of fairy-tale-inspired stories and poems is wonderfully structured. I know that's an odd way to start a review, but it's one of the elements that was most striking to me about the experience of reading Snow White Learns Witchc......more

Goodreads review by Bandit on October 17, 2020

I’ve actually first heard of the author when The Alchemist’s Daughter came out. Means to check it out, didn’t get around to it yet. But then the library got this book and I figured why not. Though poetry may not be my thing, fairy tales very much are. And it requires a certain not insignificant amou......more

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