Ergebnis für "Twelve" in Märchen

A princess with a mostly useless magical talent takes on horrible monsters, a dozen identical masked heroes, and a talking lion in a quest to save a kingdom—and herself—in this feminist fairy tale satire. “The Princess Bride meets Shrek.”—Susie Dumond, author of Bed and Breakup...

In Twelve Pitstops You Should Make While Driving to the Afterlife, Mili Mulic—a Bosnian war refugee turned artist and author—blends myth, memory, and metaphor into a deeply human road trip through the soul.

There once were 12 princesses, who so frightened their father by wearing out the soles of their slippers each night in their locked room that he offered princes a kingdom for the secret and death for any prince, who failed to learn the truth. Quite simply, they danced every night with magic princes in a magic palace by a magic lake in a magic forest that they reached by a fairly normal staircase under a trapdoor in their room. Where the trapdoor or the forest or the lake or the palace came from wasn't a question the king bothered to ask.

In the remote village of Ashbrook, the twelve nights leading up to Christmas are filled with a silence as thick and eerie as the snow blanketing the cobbled streets. Clara has returned to her childhood home after years away, drawn by an inexplicable urge to confront her past, but what she finds is a town gripped by terror. An ancient curse has reawakened, one that visits its wrath each night on those who harbour dark secrets.

Twelve princesses. One wounded soldier. A mystery that must be solved. Once upon a time...Princess Bianca is sent with her sisters to the summer palace, a place no maiden has ever returned from. While her sisters seem perfectly happy, she has only one desire: Escape. Vasco, a wounded soldier on his way home from war, stumbles across the summer palace and sets out to solve the mystery no man has managed to yet. If only they let him live long enough...Can the fair maiden and the wounded soldier uncover the sinister secret before it's too late?

Figures in Blue is the story of Esteban Espiritu, a young Spanish artist who is commissioned to paint the portrait of Kristena von Lichtenberg, an elderly Baroness living in a deteriorating mansion that overlooks a provincial German village. However, Esteban uncovers a local mystery regarding the disappearance of her brutish husband, the Baron. The novelette is set in the beginning of the twentieth century and references classical mythology.