Beauties, beasts, and enchantment : classic French fairy tales / translated and with an introduction by Jack Zipes

Published: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Meridian, [1991]
Physical Description: viii, 598 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Additional Creators: Zipes, Jack, 1937-

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Contents

Master Cat, or Puss in Boots -- Cinderella, or Glass Slipper -- Blue Beard -- Little Thumbling -- Sleeping Beauty in the woods -- Riquet with the tuft -- Little Red Riding Hood -- Fairies -- Foolish wishes -- Donkey-skin / Charles Perrault -- Discreet princess, or Adventures of Finette / Marie-Jeanne L'Heritier -- Riquet with the tuft / Catherine Bernard -- Good woman / Charlotte-Rose Caumont de La Force -- Queen of the Island of Flowers / Jean de Mailly -- Palace of Revenge / Henriette Julie de Murat -- Princess Zeineb and King Leopard / Jean-Paul Bignon -- Story of Beauty and the Beast / Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve -- Beauty and the Beast -- Prince Desir and Princess Mignone / Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont -- Princess Minute and King Floridor / Philippe de Caylus -- Princess Camion / Mlle. de Lubert -- Island of Happiness -- Beauty with the golden hair -- Blue bird -- Good little mouse -- Golden branch -- Ram -- Finette Cendron -- Bee and the orange tree -- Babiole -- Yellow dwarf -- Green serpent -- Princess Rosette -- White cat -- Beneficent frog -- Belle-Belle, or Chevalier Fortune / Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy.

Summary

A collection of French fairy tales originally written in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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0452010799

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