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The Past Is Prologue
出版CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015-11-29
主題Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
ISBN151959724X9781519597243
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=viLzjgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋'It started with the Zhar-ptitsa, the Firebird, as these things must. No, let us say it started again with the Firebird.' A group of researchers open a door in the present day that has been closed for centuries - and should have stayed that way. In 1840s Ireland, starving children face desperate measures to avoid the crisis consuming the land. A visitor to 19th Century Japan learns what it takes to fan love to life. A girl struggles to rise above the walls that surround her in Georgian England. In 7th Century Britain, a scribe translates the true value of a legend. Fourteen surprising, moving and compelling tales, weaving the next steps in the telling of famous events and stories from Greek myth to English folktale, via fairy tales and real historical events.The second anthology from The Random Writers