The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault by Charles Perrault
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"The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault" by Charles Perrault is a collection of literary fairy tales published in Paris in 1697. Written after Perrault retired from his position as secretary to a minister of Louis XIV, these stories emerged during a fashionable era when aristocrats gathered in Parisian salons to share fairy tales. The collection features eight timeless stories, including "Cinderella," "Little Red Riding Hood," and "Sleeping Beauty," each enhanced with elaborate
embellishments and ending with cynical morals, crafted specifically for an audience of aristocratic courtiers. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Clarke, Harry, 1889-1931 |
| Translator | Mansion, J. E. (Jean Edmond), 1870-1942 |
| Translator | Samber, Robert, 1682?-1735? |
| Title | The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoires_ou_contes_du_temps_pass%C3%A9 |
| Contents | Little Red Riding-hood -- The fairy -- Blue Beard -- The sleeping beauty in the wood -- The master cat: or, Puss-in-Boots -- Cinderilla: or, The little glass slipper -- Riquet with the tuft -- Little Thumb -- The ridiculous wishes -- Donkey-skin. |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Sankar Viswanathan, Suzanne Shell, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (www.archive.org/details/americana) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 68.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Fairy tales |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 29021 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-29021-8 |
| Release Date | Jun 1, 2009 |
| Last Update | May 26, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 4711 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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