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Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition SFF_Gift_Guide using the ever-changing narrative ofA new collection of subversive French fairy tales The wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella do not live happily ever after. And the fairies are saucy, angry, and capricious. Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned collects thirty six tales, most newly translated, by writers associated with the decadent literary movement that flourished in late nineteenth century