The Story of Blue-Beard by Charles Perrault
"The Story of Blue-Beard" by Charles Perrault is a French folktale first published in 1697. A wealthy nobleman with a dark history of vanished wives takes a new bride. When he leaves her alone in his palace with keys to every room but one forbidden chamber, her curiosity becomes overwhelming. What she discovers behind the locked door reveals a horrifying secret that puts her own life in mortal danger, leading to a
desperate race against time. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703 |
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| Illustrator | Southall, Joseph E. |
| LoC No. | 73179756 |
| Title | The Story of Blue-Beard |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard |
| Credits |
Produced by Chris Curnow, Matthias Grammel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 74.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Bluebeard (Legendary character) -- Juvenile fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 44288 |
| Release Date | Nov 26, 2013 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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