Charles Perrault
1) Fables
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Pub. Date
2023
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Français
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Charles Perrault n'a pas seulement écrit ses célèbres contes. Nous lui devons également quelques fables, tout à fait dans la tradition ésopienne.
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'She promised her godmother that she would not fail to leave the ball before midnight, and away she went, beside herself with delight...' Charles Perrault's time-honored stories have been passed down from the seventeenth century to the present day, giving us the classic fairy tales that people of all ages know and adore: Cinderella, with the glass slipper that...
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It is to Perrault that we owe our acquaintance with the greater number of good old-fashioned fairy-tales, but an edition of these, although it includes such intimate friends of our childhood as Blue Beard, the Sleeping Beauty, and Little Red Riding-Hood, is hardly complete without "Beauty and the Beast", a version of this tale, by Mme. Le Prince de Beaumont, has, therefore, been added to this collection. It has also been increased, space permitting...
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George G. Harrap & C0. Ltd.
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Charle Perault laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales. The best known of his tales include Le Petit Chaperon Rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), Cendrillon (Cinderella), Le Chat Botté (Puss in Boots), La Belle au bois Dormant (The Sleeping Beauty) and Barbe Bleue (Bluebeard).
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"La Bella Durmiente del Bosque" de Charles Perrault es un cuento de hadas clásico que cuenta la historia de una bella princesa condenada a dormir durante cien años. Después de ser pinchada con un huso en su decimoquinto cumpleaños, la princesa y todo su reino caen en un sueño profundo. Con el paso de los años, el castillo se llena de espinas y el mundo exterior lo olvida. Finalmente, un príncipe desafía los peligros del bosque encantado y...
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The fairy tale Little Thumbling is written by Charles Perrault. LIttle Thumbling is the youngest and smallest at home. One day all the brothers end up at the house of a giant who wants to eat them. But Little Thumbling outsmarts the giant! The moral of the story is: even if you are small, you can do great things. Recommended for age 4+.
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When a poor miller dies, his three sons are given their inheritance. The eldest son is given the mill, the middle son is given his donkey, leaving the youngest son with almost nothing: a cat the family believes to be useless. But Puss isn't any old cat. Not only can he talk, but he's incredibly cunning. He sets out to make the young man's fortune, proving that he didn't get such a bad deal after all.
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Cinderella is trapped by her evil stepmother and stepsisters who make her work nonstop. She often finds herself dreaming while being forced to do housework and, one night, her fairy godmother decides to make one of her dreams come true. With a little bit of magic, Cinderella finds herself going to a ball to meet the prince, but will it last?
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"El gato con botas y otros cuentos de Perrault" nos sumerge en el maravilloso mundo de los cuentos clásicos de Charles Perrault, uno de los más grandes escritores de la literatura infantil. A través de su narrativa cautivadora y personajes inolvidables, Perrault nos transporta a un universo lleno de magia, aventuras y enseñanzas.
El primer cuento, "El gato con botas", nos presenta a un astuto felino que, con su inteligencia y astucia, logra transformar...
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Discover the original macabre stories of your most beloved classics in this collection of disturbingly dark fairy tales.
'Story-telling is one of the most ancient and universal of arts.' – Laura F. Kready, A Study of Fairy Tales, 1916
'The instruments of darkness tell us truths.' – William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1623
This twisted treasury presents over forty of the world's most wicked fairy tales, including the original versions of stories...
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The fifth and final installment of Russian Collection for Kids goes well and truly outside of the boundaries of Russia and all over the world. Folk tales and stories by foreign authors, narratives from various continents, fanciful and fascinating storylines, people, places, and animals. This collection includes the following works:
• Golden Hair by Pavel Bazhov, Russia
• A Living Man in the Kingdom of the Dead - Nepal Folk Tale
• A Thief and...
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An anthology of time's most beloved stories, written and adapted by the world's most well-known fairy tale authors, and narrated by a variety of great storytellers.
Stories include Puss in Boots, What Jack Horner Did, Rapunzel, The Ugly Duckling, The Three Little Pigs, Jack and Jill, The Elves and the Shoemaker, Little Red Riding Hood, Snowdrop, Pussy-Cat Mew, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Emperor's New Clothes, The...