Blue Beard

Name: Blue Beard
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Charles Perrault
ISBN: 9781911144311

Author: Charles Perrault

Narrator: Josh Verbae

Unabridged: 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Interactive Media

Published: 11/15/2015

Categories: Fiction, Fairy Tales & Legends, Fantasy, Urban

Synopsis

Once upon a time there was a man who had fine houses, both in town and country, a deal of silver and gold plate, carved furniture, and coaches gilded all over. But unhappily this man had a blue beard, which made him so ugly and so terrible that all the women and girls ran away from him. Read in English, unabridged.

About Charles Perrault

Charles Perrault was born in Paris on January 1628. Son of an upper-class burgeois family, he attended the best schools and became a lawyer in 1651. He wrote Parallels Between the Ancients and the Moderns, which compared the authors of antiquity unfavorably to modern writers, and became a member of the Academie Francaise in 1671.

His Stories or Tales from Times Past, with Morals: Tales of Mother Goose, published in 1697, gave him great popularity and opened up a new literary genre: fairy tales. Among his most famous versions of fairy tales are "Blue Beard," "Sleeping Beauty on the Woods," "Little Red Riding Hood," "The Master Cat or Puss in Boots," "Cinderella," "Little Thumb," and "Donkey Skin."
He died in Paris on May 1703.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne on December 26, 2024

Am I the only one who didn't know his beard was actually blue? I'm not saying that's a red flag, but if a whole fairytale serial killer story is based around it... So this guy is rich but he has a BLUE beard. <--no idea what the author was trying to say about men with blue beards, but it's a weird thi......more

Goodreads review by Ian on November 08, 2018

Perrault and Carter "Blue Beard" is an old French tale that was retold by the French author, Charles Perrault. It formed the basis of Angela Carter's story, "The Bloody Chamber". I read two English translations of the story, one of which might have been translated by Angela Carter. This review focu......more

Goodreads review by Jesús on October 15, 2020

Este cuento de Perrault nos cuenta la historia del malvado Barba Azul, un hombre cuya barba al parecer trae la enemistad y el espanto por su fealdad de los que lo rodean. Sin embargo, guarda aún secretos más oscuros y perversos en su aparente lujosa morada producto de su falta de cordura y sadismo.......more

Goodreads review by SMLauri on October 14, 2018

Madre mía...un cuento así ni Disney lo podría suavizar!......more

Goodreads review by Anna on January 12, 2020

i love fairytales that prove men are bastards......more