‘Deliciously cruel’ 19th century twists on favourite stories, as adapted by Baudelaire and Apollinaire, make English debut in new book, Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned
From a masochistic, submissive version of Cinderella who is gunning for a prince with a shoe fetish to a prince who “loved in equal measure brunette ladies and blond pages, beautiful statues and heraldic dogs”, a series of 19th-century French fairytales – many of which have never been translated into English before – are due out this week in the book Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned.
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