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. · 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. 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's Mirror Mirror. Gregory Maguire takes a classic fairy tale or story and gives it a twist in reality's direction. He looks at the other side of the coin, there are always two sides to each story and he always tells the other side's point of view on things. Gregory Maguire's "Mirror, Mirror" is another of his reimagining of classic tales. This time he focuses on "Snow White" and comes up with a breathtakingly original idea: cast Lucrezia Borgia in the role of the evil queen. Mirror Mirror by Gregory Maguire starting at $ Mirror Mirror has 4 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace.
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. 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 is noted for recreating or retelling previously created tales of fantasy. “Mirror Mirror” is the reinvented story of Snow White. Placed in the fantasy tale are Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, the famous children of Pope. They plan the demise of Bianca De Nevada.
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