"When the Clock Strikes": A Summary of Tanith Lee's retelling of the children's classic Cinderella tale.

"Cinderella" is perhaps the most recognized fairy tale in history, one of the few that spans across generations and cultures. Every prominent culture in the world tells some similar version of this story of a poor girl going from rags to riches; over 700 versions have been accounted for worldwide. In America, numerous authors have penned their own version of the classic folktale. One of these is Tanith Lee, a prolific writer of stories for young …

…him, the story was not as the reader had heard it either... Thus, Tanith Lee concludes a brilliant re-telling of the classic tale of "Cinderella." Though not traditional in any sense, it does contain many of the common elements that each version of the "Cinderella" story has been known to have. Adding her own dark twist to the tale, she succeeds in creating yet another addition to the library of "Cinderella" stories around the globe.