{"product_id":"the-modern-fairies-9780241672464","title":"The Modern Fairies","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Clare Pollard\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE TADEUSZ BRADECKI PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A novel with oodles of charm’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Elegant, decadent, vulgar, clever, enchanting and dark’ Sarah Perry, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEnlightenment\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVersailles, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eContes de Fées \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant and bawdy, romantic and provocative, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Modern Fairies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a dazzling novel inspired by real events, about the delights and dangers of storytelling in dark times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‘Funny, filthy, dancingly clever ... A delectable confection of many-layered pleasures … I gobbled it all up, Joanna Quinn, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Whalebone Theatre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The sentences sing on the page with wit and intelligence ... Reminds the reader of the enduring power of storytelling to transform and even save lives, then and now’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45847709483159,"sku":"9780241672464","price":870.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780241672464.webp?v=1769296944","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-modern-fairies-9780241672464","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}