Popular Tales

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703

Contributor:

Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912

Standardized Title:

Contes des fées

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"Popular Tales" by Charles Perrault is a collection of fairy tales written in the late 17th century. This work includes well-known stories such as "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," and "Little Red Riding Hood," exploring themes of morality, love, and adventure through enchanting narratives and fantastical characters. Perrault's tales have significantly influenced the fairy tale genre and continue to capture the imaginations of readers across generations. At the start of the collection, an introduction provides context on Charles Perrault's life and literary contributions, emphasizing his role in popularizing stories that blend folk traditions with sophisticated literary style. The introduction highlights how these tales, originally oral traditions, made their way to the courts of France, where they were embraced by nobility and ultimately transformed into printed tales. Readers are drawn into the charm of these stories with familiar settings and characters, setting the stage for the magical narratives to unfold in the subsequent tales. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

Introduction / [Andrew Lang]

La belle au bois dormant

Le Petit Chaperon Rouge

Le Barbe Bleuë

Le maistre chat, ou, Le chat botté

Les fées

Cendrillon, ou, La petite pantoufle de verre

Riquet à la houppe

Le petit pouçet.

Credits:

Produced by Fritz Ohrenschall, Carol Brown, Sania Ali Mirza and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Notes:

Lang's introduction is in English; the tales are in French.

Reading ease score: 73.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.

Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoires_ou_contes_du_temps_pass%C3%A9

Release date is 2010-10-13