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Veronica
Schanoes
Registered User
(4/18/05 5:03 pm)
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P.L. Travers
I wonder if anyone could tell me a little about Travers's About
the Sleeping Beauty. Is it a novel? Non-fiction? Essays? Did
you enjoy it? Is it worth me hunting down a used copy?
Thanks very much for your help.
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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(4/18/05 5:08 pm)
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Re: P.L. Travers
Veronica, it is primarily a collection of tales.
Part 1 is Travers own telling of the tale followed by an afterword with her thoughts about the tale.
Part 2 is comprised of 5 tales, including Briar Rose (Grimm), Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (Perrault), Sun Moon and Talia (Basile), The Queen of Tubber Tintye (Jeremiah Curtin), and The Petrified Mansion (Bengal Fairy Tales by Birt).
Heidi
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Veronica
Schanoes
Registered User
(4/18/05 5:17 pm)
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Re: P.L. Travers
Thanks Heidi! I'll add it to my dissertation list.
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DerekJ
Unregistered User
(4/18/05 7:21 pm)
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Re: P.L. Travers
On a side note:
In Sheila Greenwald's children's book "Mariah Delany's Author of the Month Club", there's a stinging fictionalized parody of what's very deliberately meant to be the real PL Travers--
As our grade-school heroine tries to set up author interviews, and wants to start with her favorite pseudo-"Mary Poppins" author, only to run into the prickly, mercenary and uncooperative reality.
(May not have any direct bearing, but a little reassuring evidence as to why the non-Disney book-version "Poppins" always left me a little cold, and had the mark of someone going through the motions...)
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