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Snow White's father, the king, eventually took for his new wife a cold-hearted and vain woman who possesses a magical mirror that attests she is the most beautiful in the land. But when Snow White reaches an age where her beauty overshadows that of her stepmother's, the jealous Queen has a huntsman take Snow White deep into the forest to kill her.
In Praise of the Stepmother is an erotic novel by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. Published in 1988, it is about a sexually open couple whose fantasies lead them to the edge of morality. The book is dedicated to Spanish film director Luis García Berlanga.
The light novel is licensed digitally in North America by J-Novel Club. [12] In the Blu-ray set of the anime series, an original what-if story titled Mamahaha no Tsurego ga Imakano datta (継母の連れ子が今カノだった, lit. ' The Stepmom's Child Has been the Girlfriend Now ') written by Kyōsuke Kamishiro is included. [13]
In some fairy tales, such as The Juniper Tree, the stepmother's hostility is overtly the desire to secure the inheritance of her children. [4] Stepmothers also make many appearances in Chinese tales of family. Wicked stepmothers are common. [16] In Classic of Filial Piety, Guo Jujing told the story of Min Ziqian, who had lost his mother at a ...
The Dragon-Prince and the Stepmother is a Turkish fairy tale collected by Turkologist Ignác Kúnos. The tale is part of the more general cycle of the Animal as Bridegroom , [ 1 ] and is classified in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index as tale type ATU 433B, " King Lindworm ", a type that deals with maidens disenchanting serpentine husbands.
Märchen is the German diminutive of the obsolete German word Mär, meaning "news, tale" (see Märchen).It may refer to: A fairy tale, a type of short story that typically features folkloric characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments
Stepmom is a 1998 American comedy-drama film directed by Chris Columbus and produced by Wendy Finerman, Mark Radcliffe, and Michael Barnathan. The screenplay was written by Gigi Levangie , Jessie Nelson , Steven Rogers , Karen Leigh Hopkins, and Ronald Bass .
The Independent and Guardian both praised the novel, [8] with the Guardian remarking that it was a "witty and entertaining debut about two very different worlds of journalism". [9] [10] Entertainment Weekly gave The Spoiler a B+ rating, [11] with NPR calling it "satisfying". [12] The Globe and Mail also positively reviewed The Spoiler. [13]