Spindle's End Overview

This Study Guide consists of approximately 24 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Spindle's End.

Spindle's End Overview

This Study Guide consists of approximately 24 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Spindle's End.
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A retelling of the "Sleeping Beauty" tale, Spindle's End is Robin McKinley's fifth retelling of a fairy tale. (McKinley's Beauty 1978, and Rose Daughter 1997, both retell Madame Le Prince de Beaumont's "Beauty and the Beast," The Outlaws of Sherwood 1988, retells the legend of Robin Hood, and Deerskin 1993, retells Charles Perrault's "Donkeyskin"). As such, McKinley's Spindle's End demonstrates her increasing mastery over the art of retellings. Within the text, McKinley describes the literary and mythic...

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