NY: Regan Books. 1st. 2003. vg. Hardcover. ISBN:9780060393847 304 pages; b/w illustrations; contents clean; light shelf wear to edges of color il'd die-cut dj .

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E-Book Extra: “Little Snow-White” by the Brothers Grimm (read the original version of the classic fairy tale)Think you know who's the fairest of them all? Think again. Bestselling re-imaginer of classic fairy tales sets the Snow White story in Renaissance Italy, where the madly vain Lucrezia Borgia plots a dire fate for seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada (a.k.a. Snow White).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 1495, and when she is seven, her father is ordered by the duplicitous Cesare Borgia to go on a quest to reclaim the relic of the original Tree of Knowledge, a branch bearing three living apples that are thousands of years old. Bianca is left in the care of her father's farm staff and the beautiful -- and madly vain -- Lucrecia Borgia, Cesare's sister. But Lucrecia becomes jealous of her lecherous brother's interest in the growing child and plots a dire fate for Bianca in the woods below the farm. There Bianca finds herself in the home of seven dwarves -- the creators of the magic mirror -- who await the return of their brother, the eighth dwarf, long gone on a quest of his own.In the evocative style of Maguire's earlier novels, Mirror Mirror is a fresh, compelling take on a beloved classic tale.

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Bookseller: The Old Library Bookshop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 177881
Title: Mirror Mirror: A Novel
Author: Maguire, Gregory
Illustrator: Douglas Smith
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - vg
Jacket Condition: vg
Edition: 1st
ISBN 10: 006039384X
ISBN 13: 9780060393847
Publisher: Regan Books
Place of Publication: NY
Date Published: 2003
Keywords: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Bookseller catalogs: Folklore;

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