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The Rise Of Fiction's Female Tricksters

Posted at 7:22PM Tuesday 12 Mar 2013

Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and Suzanne Collins's "Hunger Games" series have given us female tricksters, women who are quick-witted, fleet-footed, and resolutely brave. And the female trickster has a long and distinguished lineage.

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