{"product_id":"2940169091427","title":"The Tale of Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore the Brothers Grimm, before Charles Perrault, before Hans Christian Andersen, there was Giambattista Basile, a seventeenth-century poet from Naples, Italy, whom the Grimms credit with recording the first national collection of fairy tales. \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Tales\u003c\/i\u003e opens with Princess Zoza, unable to laugh no matter how funny the joke. Her father, the king, attempts to make her smile; instead he leaves her cursed, whereupon the prince she is destined to marry is snatched up by another woman. To expose this impostor and win back her rightful husband, Zoza contrives a storytelling extravaganza: fifty fairy tales to be told by ten sharp-tongued women (including Zoza in disguise) over five days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFunny and scary, romantic and gruesome--and featuring a childless queen who devours the heart of a sea monster cooked by a virgin, and who then gives birth the very next day; a lecherous king aroused by the voice of a woman, whom he courts unaware of her physical grotesqueness; and a king who raises a flea to monstrous size on his own blood, sparking a contest in which an ogre vies with men for the hand of the king's daughter--\u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Tales \u003c\/i\u003eis a fairy tale treasure that prefigures \u003ci\u003eGame of Thrones \u003c\/i\u003eand other touchstones of worldwide fantasy literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114044145904,"sku":"2940169091427","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169091427_p0.jpg?v=1763671981","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169091427","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}