FREE: TAM LIN by Pamela Dean Orginal Novel Based of the Fairy Tale

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This delightful new entry in the Fairy Tale series, featuring children's classics refashioned for adult audiences, adapts the eponymous Scottish ballad to a Midwestern university setting. — In the ancient Scottish ballad "Tam Lin," headstrong Janet defies Tam Lin to walk in her own land of Carterhaugh... and then must battle the Queen of Faery fo... more »r possession of her lover's body and soul.

This is a modern retelling of the story of Tam Lin, here set in a small mid-western American college in the early 1970s. (The original ballad is given at the end of the book.) Janet Carter has just started her first year there, studying English. "If the thing you liked to do best in the world was read, and somebody offered to pay you room and board and give you a liberal-arts degree if you would just read for four years, wouldn't you do it?" But there seems to be a ghost haunting her floor, there's something strange about the Classics faculty, and her advisor seems to be trying very hard to get her to change her major.

In this version of "Tam Lin," masterfully crafted by Pamela Dean, Janet is a college student, "Carterhaugh" is Carter Hall at the university where her father teaches, and Tam Lin is a boy named Thomas Lane. Set against the backdrop of the early 1970s, imbued with wit, poetry, romance, and magic, Tam Lin has become a cult classic -- and once you begin reading, you'll know why. This reissue features an updated introduction by the book's original editor, the acclaimed Terri Windling

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