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Once Upon a More Enlightened Time

  • 1995 first published
  • 84 pages
  • 3 editions

James Finn Garner's Once Upon a More Enlightened Time (1995) is a fairy-tale retelling novella. Readers will find themes of adaptations, fairy tales and political correctness.

11 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 3 editions.

At about 84 pages, most readers finish it in about an hour and a half.

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • Adaptations
  • American Humorous stories
  • Fairy tales
  • Humorous stories, American
  • Political correctness
  • Humorous fiction
  • Fairy tales, adaptations
  • Humorous stories

Quick answers

Who wrote Once Upon a More Enlightened Time?

Once Upon a More Enlightened Time was written by James Finn Garner and first published in 1995.

What genre is Once Upon a More Enlightened Time?

It is usually shelved as Fairy Tale Retellings.

How long is Once Upon a More Enlightened Time?

The median edition has 84 pages, about about an hour and a half of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Once Upon a More Enlightened Time?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Black Swan, White Raven and Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears.

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