Politically Correct Bedtime Stories
โ Scribed by James Finn Garner
- Book ID
- 100603286
- Publisher
- Souvenir Press
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 290 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- London
- ISBN
- 0285640178
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
These hilarious adaptations of classic bedtime stories satirise the modern proclivity to all sexist, racist, culturist, nationalist, ageist, sizeist, ethnocentrist and phallocentrist bias and reflect a more enlightened sensibility. The Emperor is not naked in his new clothes but "is endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle". Snow White escapes to the cottage of "seven vertically-challenged men", while Goldilocks is an ambitious scientist studying anthropomorphic bears. Fourteen timeless fairy tales are purged of the influence of a flawed and insensitive cultural past to become ta.;Cover; title page; dedication; contents; introduction; little red riding hood; the emperor's new clothes; the three little pigs; rumpelstiltskin; the three codependent goats gruff; rapunzel; cinderella; goldilocks; snow white; chicken little; the frog prince; jack and the beanstalk; the pied piper of hamelin; copyright.
โฆ Subjects
FICTION -- General
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These hilarious adaptations of classic bedtime stories satirise the modern proclivity to all sexist, racist, culturist, nationalist, ageist, sizeist, ethnocentrist and phallocentrist bias and reflect a more enlightened sensibility. The Emperor is not naked in his new clothes but "is endorsing a clot
### Amazon.com Review James Finn Garner has taken 12 time-tested tales and retold them with the newfound sensitivity of our times. Here's a snippet from "Little Red Riding Hood": The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone." Red Riding Ho
### Amazon.com Review James Finn Garner has taken 12 time-tested tales and retold them with the newfound sensitivity of our times. Here's a snippet from "Little Red Riding Hood": The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone." Red Riding Ho
### Amazon.com Review James Finn Garner has taken 12 time-tested tales and retold them with the newfound sensitivity of our times. Here's a snippet from "Little Red Riding Hood": The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone." Red Riding Ho
### Amazon.com Review James Finn Garner has taken 12 time-tested tales and retold them with the newfound sensitivity of our times. Here's a snippet from "Little Red Riding Hood": The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone." Red Riding Hood