The story is, according to the author’s inscription, “one of the many variants of the Cinderella story; readers will recognize it as being similar to the English ‘Catskin’ and to the Grimms’ ‘Many Furs’ or ‘Thousand Furs. The title princess (who is actually nameless) grows up without a mother but with a serious indifferent father. Her only comfort is her nanny, who teaches her writing, reading, dancing, and cooking; a standard gamut of royal tutorage except for the cooking. But when her nanny dies, her […]