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Fairy Tales · Book 4

The Ugly Duchess

by Eloisa James

Published
1 January 2012
Pages
226
ISBN-13
9780062197962
Type
novel

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About this book

The Ugly Duchess, the shortest book in the series at 226 pages, retells The Ugly Duckling as a Regency romance, published in 2012.

Its place in Fairy Tales

The Ugly Duchess is book 4 in the Fairy Tales series. It follows The Duke Is Mine. It is followed by Once Upon a Tower. See the full Fairy Tales reading order.

Fairy Tales is Eloisa James's series of Regency-era retellings, each novel reworking a classic fairy tale -- Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, and others -- into a full-length historical romance. A Kiss at Midnight (2010) opens the series with a Cinderella retelling, followed by When Beauty Tamed the Beast (2011) and The Duke Is Mine (2011, a Princess and the Pea variation), then The Ugly Duchess (2012) and Once Upon a Tower (2013, a Rapunzel retelling). James, an English literature professor as…

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