The King of Capri

By Jeanette Winterson, Jane Ray

Subjects: Fairy tales, Kings, queens, rulers, etc., fiction, Italy, fiction, Kings, queens, rulers, Greed, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Greed, fiction, Children's fiction

Description: The greedy and self-centered king of Capri has a reversal of fortune when the wind blows all of his precious things into the backyard of a kind and generous Naples washerwoman, Mrs. Jewel.