01287cam a2200253 4500 1261839631 TxAuBib 961003s1997||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 96046330 9780679420088 0679420088 (OCoLC)242 DLC DLC VPL C#P OCL FIT DAY TxAuBib Byatt, A. S, 1936-, (Antonia Susan.) The Djinn in the nightingale's eye : five fairy stories / A.S. Byatt. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Random House, [1997] ix, 274 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. ""Originally published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus ... 1994""--T.p. verso. The glass coffin -- Gode's story -- The story of the eldest princess -- Dragons' breath -- The Djinn in the nightingale's eye. A collection of fairy tales for adults. The title novella is on a middle-aged Englishwoman attending a writers' conference in Turkey. She picks up an antique bottle and as she is washing it a djinn appears, offering to grant her three wishes. She asks for a younger body, then requests he make love to her. Fantasy fiction, English. Fairy tales England.