Secret Origins

If you were wondering:

McCaughrean’s retelling, specifically, seems interested in pointing readers to certain conclusions. Each tale has been renamed. Some of the titles are certainly fitting – “The Knight’s Tale of Chivalry and Rivalry” for example (McCaughrean 7). Other titles seem to miss the point of the tale, especially “The Miller’s story is A Barrel of Laughs” and “The Reeve insists on recounting A Racket at the Mill” (McCaughrean 19, 38).