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The Origin of the Fays
The Origin of the Fays | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marie-Madeleine Lubert
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The thirteen stories collected in this volume may be replete with fays, ogres, magic swords and other motifs, but they also revolve around a series of moral dilemmas, provided with fanciful magically-aided resolutions, although reflecting real philosophical debates of the times.
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The Origin of the Fays | Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marie-Madeleine Lubert
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My last post having been an anti-capitalist one, I have to admit that I made a rare purchase from Am@zon for this one 😞
Checking out bibliographic details of the book, I saw that they had a returned copy at a ridiculously low price and, as I definitely wouldn't have paid full price anywhere, I gave in to temptation! 🧚‍♂️🪄
Stableford edited a series of 18th century French contes de fées, which weirdly have overly-sexualised images of ⬇️

Bookwomble ... female fairies on the covers, presumably to appeal to a fanboy Sword and Sorcery market, and probably explaining why this was a return product as the contents are unlikely to deliver on the cover artist's promise. And, actually, there's something fittingly illusory about that, now I come to think of it. (edited) 2mo
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