by A.S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt is never more prefect than when she is writing fairy tales. And this collection has my absolute favorite story of Byatt’s “The Story of the Eldest Princess”. In this short story, Byatt attacks the eldest always failing in fairy tales as well as aspects of story telling and fate. The ...
The stories in this collection are wonderful, even if this edition is unnecessarily typeset with wide margins and overgenerous linespacing to make the book look longer than it is, and reprinting the two stories from [b:Possession|41219|Possession|A.S. Byatt|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books...
Wonderful short stories of mixing the modern world with the fantastic. Byatt is a gifted short story writer and those contained in this volume are wonderful examples of her craft and style.
I read this for the Mythic Fiction book group here on Goodreads, but never got around to going and posting about it over there...A collection of 5 stories - 4 very short, and one novella-length (the title story). The first 4 stories were excellent - but 4.5 stars for the first half of the book, and...
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Of the five stories in The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye I enjoyed "The Story of the Eldest Princess" and "The Glass Coffin" the most. However, the other three were just okay.
Ahhhhh. Big happy sigh. What a wonderful & enchanting little book. Simply delightful.
I didn't find the stories very fun to read. I blame it more on myself, sometimes the book just doesn't catch you in the right mood for it.
This was at the tale end of my "I am ill therefore I require magic" phase last month. It's a book of short stories, so I can pick it up again any time. I just am easing away from fairy tales at the moment and will come back when I want to read some beautifully crafted fairy myth.
I fell in love with the work of A. S. Byatt after reading her story "The Story of the Eldest Princess". I love fairy tales, but I also am the eldest child in my family and always felt a little slighted because in most fairy tales the older children fail. Even after I learned why that was, it still...
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