Not consider this content professional or citable. Professionally written study guide by one of our staff editors. Providing this content as a courtesy until we can offer a in 1974 led to her resulting career in the field. A postdoctoral fellowship in linguistics at M.I.T. She was accepted to Harvard University for undergraduate education and received both her B.S. From then on she found solace in the escape provided by books, using reading as comfort during family troubles and instability stemming from her father's gambling problem. That is why she hides when she finds an abandoned young soldier. The siren song she sings with her mermaid sisters makes men adore her - yet it leads them to their deaths. She will not become immortal unless she is loved by a human man. Review: Donna Jo Napoli thoughtfully and poetically reexamined the story of Hansel and Gretel from the witch's point of view in The Magic Circle. Sirena Donna Jo Napoli 3.80 5,939 ratings372 reviews Sirena is cursed. After correcting an eyesight problem left undiagnosed until the age of 10, Napoli became an avid reader. A mermaid named Sirena meets Philoctetes, a mortal and a friend of Hercules, and falls in love, only to lose him when he returns home to fight in the Trojan War. Donna Jo Napoli was born the youngest of four children in Miami, February 28, 1948, to an Italian-American family.
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