Perrault's Fairy Tales

Name: Perrault's Fairy Tales
Brand: Christianaudio
Availability: InStock
Author: Charles Perrault
ISBN: 9781596442306

Author: Charles Perrault

Narrator: Charles Perrault

Unabridged: 2 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Mission Audio

Published: 07/01/2010

Categories: Children's Fiction, Fairy Tales

Synopsis

Born in 1628, Parisian Charles Perrault was aptly credited as being the “father” of a then-new literary genre: the fairy tale. Often drawing from his own surroundings (the Chateau Ussé was the model for Sleeping Beauty, while the Marquis of the Château d'Oiron inspired the delightful Puss-in-Boots), Perrault originally penned the tales as moral stories for his own three children. Often retold, imitated, softened and animated, Perrault’s much grittier original fairy tales are certain to awaken the listener to a study of courage, betrayal, redemption and love…in short, all the complexities of the human story.

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 Federico on November 25, 2024

Fairy Madness. A short story collection by Charles Perrault, founding father of everything fairy tale. This was a fine surprise and one outstanding collection! I would have never guessed the original fairy tales that birthed the genre and laid the foundation for so many afterwards were so short, a......more

Goodreads review by Rebekah on August 06, 2024

So, what's with all the ogres??? Also, Perrault's morals at the end of each story were quite interesting. Must-read for lovers of fairytales! You can read it for free online through the Project Gutenberg LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD It’s your classic Little Red Riding-Hood story, except there’s no woodcutte......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on February 16, 2013

Once upon a time, long before farmboys arose to defeat Dark Lords and even longer before the rise of imagined histories attempting to be gritty in a way that removed most moral compasses from fantasy, there was the fairytale. A simple little literary beast masquerading as a story with a morality pla......more