03163cam a2200337 4500 521394735 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062849076 0062849077 30cc9af8-5954-4285-9898-0e9215d70cb4 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3566111 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Teller, Danielle. All the Ever Afters [Libby Audiobook] : The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother. HarperAudio, 2018. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 298MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 298MB. HTML:<p>In the vein of Wicked, The Woodcutter, and Boy, Snow, Bird, a luminous reimagining of a classic tale, told from the perspective of Agnes, Cinderella's "evil" stepmother.</p> <p>We all know the story of Cinderella. Or do we?</p> <p>As rumors about the cruel upbringing of beautiful newlywed Princess Cinderella roil the kingdom, her stepmother, Agnes, who knows all too well about hardship, privately records the true story. . . .</p> <p>A peasant born into serfdom, Agnes is separated from her family and forced into servitude as a laundress's apprentice when she is only ten years old. Using her wits and ingenuity, she escapes her tyrannical matron and makes her way toward a hopeful future. When teenaged Agnes is seduced by an older man and becomes pregnant, she is transformed by love for her child. Once again left penniless, Agnes has no choice but to return to servitude at the manor she thought she had left behind. Her new position is nursemaid to Ella, an otherworldly infant. She struggles to love the child who in time becomes her stepdaughter and, eventually, the celebrated princess who embodies everyone's unattainable fantasies. The story of their relationship reveals that nothing is what it seems, that beauty is not always desirable, and that love can take on many guises.</p> <p>Lyrically told, emotionally evocative, and brilliantly perceptive, All the Ever Afters explores the hidden complexities that lie beneath classic tales of good and evil, all the while showing us that how we confront adversity reveals a more profound, and ultimately more important, truth than the ideal of "happily ever after."</p>. Historical Fiction. Literature. Mythology. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:30:24. Copland, Jane. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/3566111-AllTheEverAfters.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=30cc9af8-5954-4285-9898-0e9215d70cb4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/3566111-AllTheEverAfters.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=30cc9af8-5954-4285-9898-0e9215d70cb4&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)