{"product_id":"9780316212939","title":"Rags \u0026 Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe best writers of our generation retell classic tales.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Sir Edmund Spenser's \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e to E. M. Forster's \"The Machine Stops,\" literature is filled with sexy, deadly, and downright twisted tales. In this collection, award-winning and bestselling authors reimagine their favorite classic stories, the ones that have inspired, awed, and enraged them, the ones that have become ingrained in modern culture, and the ones that have been too long overlooked. They take these stories and boil them down to their bones, and reassemble them for a new generation of readers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten from a twenty-first century perspective and set within the realms of science fiction, dystopian fiction, fantasy, and realistic fiction, these short stories are as moving and thought provoking as their originators. They pay homage to groundbreaking literary achievements of the past while celebrating each author's unique perception and innovative style. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday's most acclaimed authors use their own unique styles to rebuild the twelve timeless stories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSir Edmund Spenser's \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e - Saladin Ahmed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eW. W. Jacobs's \"The Monkey's Paw\" - Kelley Armstrong\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Sheridan Le Fanu's \"Carmilla\" - Holly Black\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSleeping Beauty\" - Neil Gaiman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Brothers Grimm's \"Rumpelstiltskin\" - Kami Garcia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKate Chopin's \u003ci\u003eThe Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e - Melissa Marr\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRudyard Kipling's \"The Man Who Would Be King\" - Garth Nix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry James's \"The Jolly Corner\" - Tim Pratt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eE. M. Forster's \"The Machine Stops\" - Carrie Ryan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHorace Walpole's \u003ci\u003eThe Castle of Otranto\u003c\/i\u003e - Margaret Stohl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Seabrook's \"The Caged White Werewolf of the Saraban\" - Gene Wolfe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNathaniel Hawthorne's \"The Birth-Mark\" - Rick Yancey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd six illustrations by Charles Vess\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Books for Young Readers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015869350128,"sku":"9780316212939","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316212939_p0.jpg?v=1763679536","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316212939","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}