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Terri
Windling
Registered User
(5/18/04 6:19 am)
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Labyrinths
Ari Berk is currently writing a Folkroots column for Realms of Fantasy about labyrinths, and we were trying to come up with novels that have labyrinths or mazes in them. I thought of Midori Snyder's The Innamorati...but I'm sure there are more and I'm drawing a blank. Does anyone here have ideas? (There's also the movie Labyrinth, of course, but Ari's got that covered. He's specifically looking for fiction.)
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Jess
Unregistered User
(5/18/04 8:10 am)
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I don't recall, but
I don't recall what exactly is in this thread from December 2003, but did you check it out already, Terri?
www.surlalunefairytales.c...mazes.html
Jess
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Colleen
Unregistered User
(5/18/04 9:48 am)
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Are YA Novels OK?
Lavendar Green Magic by Andre Norton. The focal point is
a hedge maze; it's a time-travel fantasy novel rather than fairy
tale. I loved that book in junior high and even in high school and
if I saw it in a used bookstore, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
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Richard
Parks
Registered User
(5/18/04 10:16 am)
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Re: Are YA Novels OK?
Monica Hughes's THE MAZE for one, and wasn't there a hedge maze in ALICE IN WONDERLAND that was part labyrinth, part croquet field? Gad, I can't remember. Time to re-read.
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aka
Greensleeves
(5/18/04 10:47 am)
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Re: Are YA Novels OK?
The children in Pat O'Shea's The Hounds of the Morrigan
must navigate a maze that turns out to be a giant thumbprint of
the goddess (the Celtic Morrigan).
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RebeccaM
Unregistered User
(5/18/04 6:01 pm)
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Labryniths
Walking the Labrynith by Lisa Goldstein and House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski are a couple others. I haven't read these two, though, so I'm not sure how appropriate they actually are to your topic.
Then, of course, there's Borges, particularly "The Two Kings and Their Two Labryniths" and "Ibn-Hakkan al-Bokhari, Dead in His Labrynith," but those are short stories, so perhaps you have already thought of them, or they are not of interest.
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janeyolen
Registered User
(5/18/04 8:14 pm)
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Another
My Odysseus in the Serpent Maze...YA written with Robert J. Harris (HarperCollins)
Jane
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tlchang37
Registered User
(5/18/04 11:09 pm)
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mazes..
Aren't there mazes in "The Secret Garden", (Frances Hodgson Burnett) and "The Shining"(Stephen King)?
Also - children's book "The Changing Maze" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, ill. by Charles Mikolaycak.
Tara
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Jessica
Unregistered User
(5/19/04 12:44 am)
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And...
There's a maze in "The Enchanted Castle" by E. Nesbit.
(And for some reason I want to say there's a maze at the end of "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman, but it's been a while; I may just be thinking of my own confusing image of the underground.)
--Jessica
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Jessica
Unregistered User
(5/19/04 1:16 am)
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PS
Oh! And, stating the obvious: the fourth book of Harry Potter has a maze. (The Goblet of Fire...?) So does "The King Must Die" by Mary Renault - a version of the Theseus myth.
--Jessica
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Terri
Windling
Registered User
(5/19/04 7:27 am)
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Re: PS
Great suggestions. Thanks, everyone! (How on earth did I forget the Goldstein and Renault books, especially???)
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aka
Greensleeves
(5/19/04 7:32 am)
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Re: PS
Well, there's also Lost in the Labyrinth by Patrice Kindl
(Theseus again).
The hedge maze is in the (Kubrick) film version of The Shining.
The book has topiaries that come to life--er, start moving like
real animals, that is (and the only reason I remember that is because
it's the only scene from any King book to ever really, really scare
me ).
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Meurglys
(5/20/04 7:06 am)
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Re: PS
Zelazny's Amber series... I think there's
a maze in Crowley's Little, Big but it's
far too long a time since I read it...
The library in Eco's The Name of the Rose?
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agathajun
(5/20/04 4:11 pm)
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more...
I have a feeling there is one in Italo Calvino's 'The Castle of Crossed Destinies'. And a large and wonderful one surrounds the Ivory Tower in 'The Neverending Story' (book not film). In the film of Orlando, when she runs through the maze from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries, but I don't remember it being in the book.
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mmcphie
Unregistered User
(5/20/04 6:00 pm)
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Wooing of the Maze
I loved hearing the story which storyteller Carol Birch calls "Wooing of the Maze." She says it's from Laurence Housman's Farm in Fairyland. It's about a princess at the center of a maze. When a prince finally navigates the maze and reaches her, there are a few surprises.
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Meurglys
(5/21/04 6:50 am)
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Re: Wooing of the Maze
Three Men in a Boat?
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Heather
KT
Registered User
(5/21/04 9:14 am)
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another YA
There's a kind of labyrinth in _The China Garden_ by Liz Berry, too.
from p. 152:
"The lost Maze of Ravensmere. Not the kind of maze she and Mai had imagined, with tall hedges like Hampton Court, where you got confused, but a maze cut into the turf. The kind of maze that had been old even in Shakespeare's time, which had a single way to the centre, and a single way back. What did they call it? A _Troy Town_."
Heather Tomlinson
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Colleen
Unregistered User
(5/21/04 9:48 am)
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How About
The Dancing Floor, by Barbara Michaels. Not fairy tale or even fantasy, I'm afraid, but if I recall correctly, there is a maze involved.
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InkGypsy
Unregistered User
(5/21/04 2:23 pm)
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Re:
Not a book but anyone remember the series from the early 80's "Into the Labyrinth"? Think it was a UK production that lasted about 3 years.
I'm sure Carol Ann Duffy has some maze-allusions in her book "The World's Wife" too though I don't have a copy handy to reference.
And didn't Nathaniel Hawthorne (yes of The Scarlet Letter fame) write Tanglewood Tales revisiting some of the popular myths?
And exploring mazes of another kind in story and using story to figure them out (specifically fairy tales) as well as dark feelings - "In a Dark Wood" by Amanda Craig.
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slytherin
gurll
Registered User
(5/22/04 6:59 pm)
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Re: Re:
Cool! I'll have to check these out!
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AliceCEB
Registered User
(5/23/04 6:39 pm)
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Re: Re:
Wasn't there a maze in Jane Austen's Mansfield
Park? My brain is a bit fuzzy, but I recall a chapter where
couples went visiting gardens in which they end up losing each other,
and, I believe, one of the layouts included a maze. (Now, wait a
second -- was that Emma?
Oh dear.)
Alice
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