Once Upon a More Enlightened Time – James Finn Garner
Once upon a time, James Finn Garner rescued the world’s best-loved fairy tales from their culturally insensitive pasts. Now he is back with more.
Once Upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories is the follow-up to Garner’s bestselling satire Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. In this collection he takes on another batch of classic tales, from fairy stories to nursery favorites, and rewrites them for a more sensitive age, carefully removing anything that might offend, exclude or stereotype anyone, and in the process gleefully exposing the absurdities of political correctness taken to its extreme.
Familiar heroes and heroines find themselves reimagined in the language of self-help, therapy, corporate jargon and identity politics, with hilarious results. Villains become misunderstood victims of circumstance, happy endings are carefully negotiated, and no one is ever simply short, poor or ugly.
Garner’s satire is sharp but good-natured, poking fun at the excesses of well-meaning language while celebrating the enduring power of the original stories. The tales are short, quick to read and perfect for sharing aloud with grown-up friends.
Witty, irreverent and endlessly quotable, Once Upon a More Enlightened Time is a delightful gift for fans of the first book, lovers of fairy tales and anyone who enjoys a clever send-up of modern manners and the way we talk.
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