· In his earlier novels, Maguire played with characterization by making the reader care about traditionally unsympathetic characters such as the wicked witch or the ugly stepsister. In MIRROR MIRROR, though, the "evil stepmother" figure portrayed by Lucrezia Borgia remains unlikable from start to finish, and her motivations are never adequately explored. · Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author who re-imagined a darker, more dangerous Land of Oz in his New York Times bestselling series The Wicked Years, offers a brilliant reinvention of the timeless Snow White fairy tale: Mirror www.doorway.ru: HarperCollins Publishers. · The Mermaids Mirror by L.K. Madigan: Mirror Mirror by Cara Delevingne: The Girl in the Mirror by Cathy Glass: A Stranger In The Mirror by Sidney Sheldon: Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman: A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire: Wicked / Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire.
A lyrical work of stunning creative vision, Mirror Mirror is set in Renaissance Italy, where Gregory Maguire draws a connection between the poison apple in the original Snow White story and the Borgia family's well-known appetite for poisoning its foes. In Mirror Mirror Snow White is called Bianca de Nevada. She is born on a farm in Tuscany in. Mirror Mirror. We hear the bells of the chapel on the blossom-scented winds of May, and we realize it's time to pray. If we are to be human we must pray as humans do. So we put down our tools and scour the muck from our nails, for we have learned you must not come to chapel smelling of corpses and shit and gold and blood and the juice of whores. ― Gregory Maguire, quote from Mirror Mirror "Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being." ― Gregory Maguire, quote from Mirror Mirror "I'm a priest, I know better than most when a lie is permitted.".
Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author who re-imagined a darker, more dangerous Land of Oz in his New York Times bestselling series The Wicked Years, offers a brilliant reinvention of the timeless Snow White fairy tale: Mirror Mirror. Mirror Mirror Quotes Showing of “The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.”. ― Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror. likes. Like. “If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.”. Mirror Mirror By Gregory Maguire Details. Publisher: Headline Publication Date: - 03 - 04 ISBN: Themes: Preface. The year is , and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente.
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