Maguire's characters are at once more human and more fanciful than their fairy-tale originals. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister begins in 17th-century Holland, where the two Fisher sisters and their mother have fled to escape a hostile England. Love and hate, beauty and ugliness, cruelty and charity-each idea is stripped of its ethical trappings, smashed up against its opposite number, and laid bare for our examination. = Review: Gregory Maguire's chilling, wonderful retelling of Cinderella is a study in contrasts. Many things had to be settled before they could find their way back together. It was not a simple matter of rediscovering love. A spiteful relative of Lord Steyne's had told him that she had run off and married another.Then, suddenly, Theodosia met Lord Steyne after a three-year separation.But so much had happened to them both in those three years. IN MY LADY'S CHAMBER - It was some time before lovely, young Theodosia came to understand why she had become a governess instead of a wife. After she?s cleaned up, he finds himself besot by her beauty, and as the young girl grows into a capable woman, she attracts more attention than just that of Lord Randal. He's charmed by her big beautiful cat eyes and devises a plan to masquerade her as his servant, to have her become his "tiger". LORD RANDAL'S TIGER - Lord Randal found Chloe living in a horse?s stable, dressed in rags. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing.
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