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Original title: The Courtship of Mr Lyon
Original languages: English

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Genre: Fairy Tales & Folklore→ Reinterpretations

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     Bloody Chamber, the (1979) [Collection]
      Author: Angela Carter
     Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales, the (1993) [Anthology]
      Authors: L. Frank Baum , Ursula K. Le Guin , Charles Dickens , Philip K. Dick , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Alison Lurie , Edith Nesbit , H. G. Wells , Oscar Wilde , Isaac Bashevis Singer , Bernard Malamud , Tanith Lee , Donald Barthelme , Lord Dunsany , Louise Erdrich , Kenneth Grahame , Robert Louis Stevenson , Howard Pyle , Jane Yolen , T.H. White , John Collier , Angela Carter , James Thurber , Joan Aiken , Catherine Sinclair , George MacDonald , Laurence Housman , Frank R. Stockton , Jay Williams , Walter de la Mare , Sylvia Townsend Warner , Mary de Morgan , Lucy Lane Clifford , John Ruskin , Carl Sandburg , Frances Browne , Juliana Horatia Ewing , Richard Hughes , Naomi Mitchison , Jeanne Desy , Richard Kennedy
     Art of the Story, the (1999) [Anthology]
      Authors: Haruki Murakami , Salman Rushdie , Robert Olen Butler , Richard Ford , Steven Millhauser , Martin Amis , Margaret Atwood , Banana Yoshimoto , Sandra Cisneros , Kazuo Ishiguro , Joyce Carol Oates , T.C. (Thomas Coraghessan) Boyle , Eduardo Galeano , Ian McEwan , Tobias Wolff , Junot Díaz , James Kelman , Edmund White , Jim Crace , Tatyana Tolstaya , Angela Carter , Julia Alvarez , Raymond Carver , Bobbie Ann Mason , Edwidge Danticat , Graham Swift , Peter Hoeg , Julian Barnes , Rose Tremain , Lorrie Moore , Francine Prose , Richard Bausch , Victor Pelevin , Bharati Mukherjee , Hanif Kureishi , Jeannette Winterson , Peter Carey , Torgny Lindgren , Russell Banks , Mohammed Mrabet , Luisa Valenzuela , Deborah Eisenberg , Edward P. Jones , John Edgar Wideman , Lydia Davis , Ingo Schulze , Patricia Duncker , Ben Okri , Amos Oz , Ama Ata Aidoo , Hanah Al-Shaykh , Reinaldo Arenas , Toni Cade Bambara , Nicola Barker , Ann Beattie , Patrick Chamoiseau , Vikram Chandra , Daniele del Giudice , Duong Thu Huong , Nathan Englander , Victor Erofeyev , Péter Esterházy , Nuruddin Farah , Hervé Guibert , Abdulrazak Gurnah , Barry Hannah , Pawel Huelle , Roy Jacobsen , Colum McCann , Mary Morris , Murathan Mungan , Ken Saro-Wiwa , Antonio Tabucchi , Ngugi wa Thiong'o , Zoë Wicomb , Joy Williams , Jeanne Wilmot , Can Xue