Bitter greens / by Kate Forsyth.
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TextPublisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2012Edition: Large print editionDescription: 785 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781410474254 (hardcover); 1410474259 (hardcover)Subject(s): Women -- Europe -- Social conditions -- 16th century | Women novelists, French -- 17th century -- Fiction | Renaissance -- Fiction | Witches -- Fiction | Women -- Fiction | Scandals -- Fiction | Rapunzel (Tale) -- Adaptations | Venice (Italy) -- History -- 1508-1797 -- Fiction | Italy -- Civilization -- 1268-1559 -- FictionGenre/Form: Large type books. | Historical fiction. DDC classification: 823.92 LOC classification: PR9619.3.F59 | B58 2014bSummary: The amazing power and truth of the Rapunzel fairy tale comes alive for the first time. French novelist Charlotte-Rose de la Force has been banished from the court of Versailles by the Sun King‚ Louis XIV‚ after a series of scandalous love affairs. At the convent‚ she is comforted by an old nun‚ Soeur Seraphina‚ who tells her the tale of a young girl who‚ a hundred years earlier‚ is sold by her parents for a handful of bitter greens.
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The amazing power and truth of the Rapunzel fairy tale comes alive for the first time. French novelist Charlotte-Rose de la Force has been banished from the court of Versailles by the Sun King‚ Louis XIV‚ after a series of scandalous love affairs. At the convent‚ she is comforted by an old nun‚ Soeur Seraphina‚ who tells her the tale of a young girl who‚ a hundred years earlier‚ is sold by her parents for a handful of bitter greens.
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