The Crimson Thread
A Retelling of "Rumpelstiltskin"
1st Edition
Published on 27. October 2009
240 pages
978-1-4424-0740-4 (ISBN)
Description
Another addition to the compulsively readable Once Upon a Time series, a whimsical retelling of the beloved Grimms tale Rumpelstiltskin.
The year is 1880, and Bertie, having just arrived in New York with her family, is grateful to be given work as a seamstress in the home of textile tycoon J.P. Wellington. When the Wellington family fortune is threatened, Bertie's father boasts that Bertie will save the business, that she is so skillful she can "practically spin straw into gold."
Amazingly, in the course of one night, Bertie creates exquisite evening gowns?with the help of Ray Stalls, a man from her tenement who uses an old spinning wheel to create dresses that are woven with crimson thread and look as though they are spun with real gold. Indebted to Ray, Bertie asks how she can repay him. When Ray asks for her firstborn child, Bertie agrees, never dreaming that he is serious...
The year is 1880, and Bertie, having just arrived in New York with her family, is grateful to be given work as a seamstress in the home of textile tycoon J.P. Wellington. When the Wellington family fortune is threatened, Bertie's father boasts that Bertie will save the business, that she is so skillful she can "practically spin straw into gold."
Amazingly, in the course of one night, Bertie creates exquisite evening gowns?with the help of Ray Stalls, a man from her tenement who uses an old spinning wheel to create dresses that are woven with crimson thread and look as though they are spun with real gold. Indebted to Ray, Bertie asks how she can repay him. When Ray asks for her firstborn child, Bertie agrees, never dreaming that he is serious...
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06/2008
Simon Pulse
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Suzanne Weyn
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Prologue
- Chapter One A Brave New World
- Chapter Two The Crimson Thread
- Chapter Three The Fighting O'Malleys
- Chapter Four Rick Miller from Wales
- Chapter Five The Police Close In
- Chapter Six Fired!
- Chapter Seven Balancing Act
- Chapter Eight In the Grand House
- Chapter Nine Crisis
- Chapter Ten James Wellington, The Prince of Industry
- Chapter Eleven The Secret Room
- Chapter Twelve Da's Wild Boast
- Chapter Thirteen Spinning Straw into Gold
- Chapter Fourteen Angry Words
- Chapter Fifteen A Strange Presence Outside the Window
- Chapter Sixteen Atlanta
- Chapter Seventeen A New Life
- Chapter Eighteen A Revealing Conversation
- Chapter Nineteen The Last Straw
- Chapter Twenty A Confrontation
- Chapter Twenty-One Cast Out
- Chapter Twenty-Two Trouble
- Chapter Twenty-Three The Real Name
- Chapter Twenty-Four Searching for Eileen
- Epilogue
- Water Song
- Prologue Belgium, April 1915
- Chapter One The Glowing Green Sky
- About the Author
