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Tales of Passed Times
(Perrault's Fairy Tales)
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| Author(s): | Charles Perrault |
| Illustrator(s): | John Austen |
| Translator(s): | Anonymous |
| Publisher(s): | Selwyn & Blount, Ltd. |
| Year Published: | 1922 |
| Type: | Hardcover |
| Genre: | Fairy Tales - Classic |
| Age Range: | Ages 7-9: Short Chapter Books |
| Pages: | 64 |
| This is an | All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB) |
| OCLC: | 123163001 |
Description
Eight famous fairy tales first published in French in 1697. They include Little Red Riding Hood, Blue Beard, The Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. This edition does not include the morals. Read online at Internet Archive.
Other Editions
Histories, or Tales of Past Times (1729)
This is the first English translation of Charles Perrault's collection of fairy tales, containing:
- The Little Red Riding Hood
- The Fairy (Diamonds and Toads)
- The Blue Beard
- The Sleeping Beauty (in the Wood)
- The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots
- Cinderilla, or the Little Glass Slipper
- Riquet à la Houppe (Riquet of the Tuft)
- Little Poucet and his Brothers (Hop o' My Thumb)
as well as an adult 'novel' - The Discreet Princess, or the Adventures of Finetta - by Perrault's relative Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier de Villandon.
Only a single copy of this first edition is known to exist.
This edition contains the morals, which are often left out, particularly in modern editions.
Tales of Passed Times (1900)
In addition to the famous eight tales of Perrault, including their morals, this edition includes Beauty and the Beast and two tales by Madame d'Aulnoy. Read online at Internet Archive.
Cinderella and Other Tales from Perrault (1989)
A selection of eight classic French fairy tales.
Read online at archive.org.
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