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The complete fairy tales / Charles Perrault; translated with an introduction and notes by Christopher Betts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703.
- Standardized Title:
- Contes des fées. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales--France.
- Fairy tales.
- Children's stories, French--Translations into English.
- Children's stories, French.
- France.
- Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703.
- Genre:
- Fairy tales.
- Translations.
- Physical Description:
- li, 204 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Perrault's fairy tales in a scintillating translation, including the less familiar verse tales and with illustrations by Gustave Doré. The introduction explores the imaginative power of the stories and the many interpretations to which they have been subject.
- Contents:
- History of Griselda
- Letter to M. ..., on sending him The history of Griselda
- Three silly wishes
- Donkey-skin
- To Mademoiselle
- The sleeping beauty in the wood
- Little Red Riding-Hood
- Bluebeard
- Puss in boots
- The fairies
- Cinderella
- Ricky the Tuft
- Hop o' my thumb
- Appendix A : Selected tales related to Perrault's Contes
- Appendix B : Early versions of the last part of Sleeping Beauty and of The fairies.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786612383151
- 9780198965862
- 0198965869
- 9780198817970
- 0198817975
- 9781282383159
- 1282383159
- 9780191571589
- 019157158X
- OCLC:
- 516313953
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