Books with title The Tough Princesss

Gail Carson Levine charmed the world with Ella Enchanted, her spirited retelling of the Cinderella story. Now this award-winning author turns her attention to two more classic fairy tales, and deftly turns them upside down and inside out with her trademark wit and hilarity. In The Fairy's Mistake, two very different sisters have two very different encounters with the fairy Ethelinda. Rosella is kind and helpful. Her reward: Jewels and gems tumble out of her mouth whenever she speaks. Myrtle is rude and spiteful. Her punishment: Bugs and vipers slither out of her mouth. The fairy Ethelinda feels she's meted out justice just right--until she discovers Rosella has been locked up by a greedy prince and Myrtle is having the time of her life! In The Princess Test, King Humphrey has decided its time for his son, Prince Nicholas, to marry. But he must make sure the bride is a real princess. So he devises a series of princess tests, designed to weed out the phonies and the fakes. Meanwhile, Nicholas has fallen in love with Lorelei, a mere blacksmith's daughter. She's no princess, but he wants to marry her all the same--but how will she ever pass the terrible tests?In these first two delightfully entertaining, laugh-out-loud Princess Tales, Gail Levine gently spoofs the notion that fairies are always right and that tests can never prove a persons worth, but holds fast to the notion that true love will always win in the end.

An epic poem planned almost 20 years before it was actually written, Alfred Tennyson's “The Princess” follows the narrated tale of a brave princess who managed to look past the seeming superiority of men in the era she was living in, and founded a women's university, where men were not allowed. The plot talks about a young princess who defied her heritage, seeking to change the world she was living in, and provide women with similar rights as men. In an effort to curb her initiative, the prince she was promised to since birth had entered the university with some of his friends disguised as women. They were, however, discovered, and eventually placed at the mercy of the Princess. How will she deal with this unexpected development? The poem has attracted considerable attention when it was written, in 1847, not just because it coincided with the opening of the first college for women in Britain (Queen's College in London), but also due to the speculation that the poem may have partly been inspired by the opening of Love's Labour's Lost. Those interested in the rise of feminism and its acceptance in Britain during the middle of the 19th century might find this remarkable poem to be of significant historic value, while Tennyson's engaging, sometimes humorous writing style, as well as his complex and elegant narrative will likely keep many readers interested, even if they are not accustomed with reading narrative poems.A curious fact about The Princess is that Tennyson took his time with completing it, putting forth the idea to his then future wife, Emily Sellwood, as early as 1830, but only completing it 17 years later.The conclusion of the poem sees the author offering quite an illuminating comment regarding The Princess, defining it as a blend between a comic and solemn narrative.