The Sleeping Beauty, Charles Perrault
The Sleeping Beauty, Charles Perrault
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The Sleeping Beauty

Author: Charles Perrault

Narrator: Josh Verbae

Unabridged: 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/15/2015

Synopsis

Once upon a time there was a king and a queen, who were very sorry that they had no children,—so sorry that it cannot be told. At last, however, the Queen had a daughter. There was a very fine christening; and the Princess had for her godmothers all the fairies they could find in the whole kingdom (there were seven of them), so that every one of them might confer a gift upon her, as was the custom of fairies in those days. By this means the Princess had all the perfections imaginable. 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 Ahmed

Well, it was just Okay not like I was hearing for so long. There wasn't any twists and turns. It was just a plane read. Author didn't let us to guess things. But still a good read. I enjoyed it. P.S. By reading this, I came to know some more facts about story which I didn't know before. ^__^......more

Goodreads review by M.M. Strawberry

(Included in the Blue Fairy Book under the title of The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods) Like many young girls, my first version of Sleeping Beauty was the Disney one, so it was interesting to see the difference between Grimm's original version and the Disney one, as well as a couple of retellings of th......more

Goodreads review by Shirley

Whenever I think of Walt Disney I remember sleeping beauty one of the best stories that never seems to age. Loved the book and the film that really bought this story to life much to the delight of children both big and small. My children and grandchildren love sleeping beauty. One of our favourite c......more

Goodreads review by Shabana

Review to come.......more

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