| Grimm Tales Made Gay Contributor(s): Carryl, Guy Wetmore (Author) |
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ISBN: 1671021339 ISBN-13: 9781671021334 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.15" H x 5" W x 7.99" (0.17 lbs) 64 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Most of the one and two star reviews should be ignored as they are simply complaints based on the reviewers' misperceptions and mistaken expectations. This book was published in 1902, long before the word gay was hijacked. It contains no sex of any kind, not even innuendos or double entendres. Nor is there anything vulgar, profane or crude. Instead it contains rhyming versions of several familiar fairy tales with amusing and/or odd twists to the tales. It reminds me just a little of some of the quirky humor in Rocky and Bullwinkle. Many of the rhymes were originally published in Harper's Magazine, The Century, Life, The Smart Set, The Saturday Evening Post and The Home Magazine. They were not written in Ancient English, Old English or a foreign tongue as some reviewers have complained. Though I suppose to some of those who have passed through our modern public education system, they may as well have bee |
