Cinderella, Charles Perrault
Cinderella, Charles Perrault
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Cinderella

Author: Charles Perrault

Narrator: Matthew Zamoyski, Agnes Le Nart, Jessica Mulligan, Julia Mier, Martha Strauss, Monika Urlik, Stephen Potocki

Unabridged: 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/29/2019


Synopsis

When her mother dies, Cinderella’s father remarries, and now she lives with her new family: her father, new mother and two new wicked sisters. They are mean and unkind to Cinderella, and she is treated no better than a house servant, cooking and cleaning for everyone else.

One day the two sisters are invited to a great ball to be given by the king and queen. Cinderella is unfortunately excluded.

Sitting sad and alone at home, she is visited by a great fairy! Her fairy godmother magically transforms Cinderella into a beautiful princess-like figure. She shall go to the ball!

At the ball Cinderella is the talk of the palace, admired for her beauty and grace. Alas, as midnight approaches, she must heed the fairy’s warning and return home — but not before the king and queen have invited her to another ball the following night!

Author Bio

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.

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