Master storyteller Gregory Maguire spins a magical and mesmerizing adventure set in Tsarist Russia. Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked, combines fairy tale and folklore in this irreverent re-imagining of the classic story of mistaken identity ? The Prince and the Pauper . Described by Sch
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β Scribed by Maguire, Gregory
- Book ID
- 108221738
- Publisher
- Candlewick Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780763672201
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β¦ Synopsis
In this tour de force, master storyteller Gregory Maguire offers a dazzling novel for fantasy lovers of all ages. Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her father has been dead for years. One of her brothers has been conscripted into the Tsar's army, the other taken as a servant in the house of the local landowner. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there is no food. But then a train arrives in the village, a train carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble family destined to visit the Tsar in Saint Petersburgβa family that includes Ekaterina, a girl of Elena's age. When the two girls' lives collide, an adventure is set in motion, an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, andβin a starring role only Gregory Maguire could have conjuredβBaba Yaga, witch of Russian folklore, in her ambulatory house perched on chicken legs.
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