Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women

Move over, Jack the Giant-Killer, Prince Charming, and all the other heroes of our most familiar folk and fairy tales. Here is a collection of eighteen stories about heroines, girls and women with as much courage, wit, and intelligence as their better known male counterparts. From Li Chi, who battles a fierce serpent to save her townspeople, to the old women sly enough to outwit even the devil, the heroines in these tales prove their mettle and pluck, and do it on their own terms.