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The Modern Fairies

by Clare Pollard
language: english
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, April of 2025 ‧
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Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV's fever dream. It's a place of opulence, beauty, and power. But strip back the lavish exterior of polite society, and you'll find a dark undercurrent of sexual intrigue and vicious gossip. Nobody is safe here - no matter how highly born they are.

No one knows this better than Madame Marie d'Aulnoy. Each week, a rogue group of intellectuals gather at her Parisian home to debate, flirt and perform Contes de Fées - fairy tales - that challenge the status quo, at a salon that will change the course of literature forever. But while they weave tales of glass slippers, enchanted beasts and long-haired princesses, a wolf is lurking, who threatens to destroy the members of the salon one by one.

Brilliant and bawdy, romantic and provocative, The Modern Fairies is a dazzling novel inspired by real events, about the delights and dangers of storytelling in dark times.

The Modern Fairies

by Clare Pollard

Property Description
ISBN: 9780241672464
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Release Date: April of 2025
Language: English
Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 256
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Fantasy Literature
EAN: 9780241672464