Winner · Locus Awards 2014
The Sleeper and the Spindle
by Neil Gaiman
2013 novelette by Neil Gaiman
On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 72
- ISBN
- 9780062398253
- Subjects
- Adaptations, Juvenile fiction, Quests (Expeditions), Fairy tales, Search and rescue operations, Princesses, Sleeping Beauty (Tale), Snow White (Tale)
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