Charles Perrault
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The French author who laid the foundations for the fairy tale genre of literature. His collected "Contes des fées" (widely known as the Mother Goose stories) have been endlessly retold, most profitably by Disney. Every child knows "Cinderella", "Beauty and the Beast", "Sleeping Beauty", "Snow White", "Puss in Boots", "Tom Thumb", and "Red Riding Hood". Charles Perrault naquit a Paris le 12 janvier 1628, septieme enfant de Pierre Perrault, avocat au parlement de Paris. Apres d'excellentes etudes au college de Beauvais, rue Jean-De-Beauvais a Paris, il fut recu avocat en 1651. Il abandonna bientot apres le barreau et devint commis de son frere aine, Pierre, receveur general des finances de Paris. Les loisirs que lui laissait sa place lui permirent de se livrer a la poesie : diverses pieces de circonstances, a la verite assez mediocrement versifiees, commencerent a le faire connaitre des hommes de lettres et des artistes de son temps. En 1663, il entra au service de Colbert et devint rapidement son homme de confiance : nomme secretaire de la " petite academie " , qui sera plus tard l'academie des inscriptions et belles lettres, il prit ensuite une part active a l'administration des batiments du roi, avec le titre de "premier commis des batiments" . En 1671, il fut elu a l'academie francaise. La meme annee, il epousa une jeune fille de dix-neuf ans, Marie Guichon, qui lui donna quatre enfants et le laissa veuf en 1678.
Books
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
A retelling of the adventures of a nosy, naughty, and sassy little girl who finds the house of the three bears and helps herself to their belongings.
Wolf's Complete Book of Terror
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin I Love My Love / Helen Adam I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream / Harlan Ellison The Tattooer / Junichiro Tanizaki A Selection from Steps / Jerzy Kosinski Axolotl / Julio Cortazar [Wish]( / Roald Dahl The Lottery / Shirley Jackson It's a Good Life / Jerome Bixby They Bite / Anthony Boucher The Last Night of the World / Ray Bradbury Born of Man and Woman / Richard Matheson Piazza Piece / John Crowe Ransom The South / Jorge Luis Borges The Fly / George Langelaan The Doll / Algernon Blackwood The Ghost / Richard Hughes The Hunted Beast / T. F. Powys End / Langston Hughes The Rival Dummy / Ben Hecht Caterpillars / E. F. Benson Lukundoo / Edward Lucas White Sredni Vashtar / Saki (H. H. Munro) The Picture un the House / H. P. Lovecraft Pollock and the Porroh Man / H. G. Wells The Spider / Hans Heinz Ewers The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains / Frederick Marryat Tcheriapin / Sax Rohmer My Doll Janie / Lola Ridge The Monkey's Paw / W. W. Jacobs The Mark of the Beast / Rudyard Kipling Manacled / Stephen Crane Yuki-Onna / Lafcadio Hearn Mujina / Lafcadio Hearn The Squaw / Bram Stoker The Yellow Wallpaper / Chalotte Perkins Gilman The Black Mass, Episode from La-bas (Down There) / J. K. Huysmans The Magic Shirt / Anonymous Carmilla / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Not to Be Taken at Bed-time / Rosa Mulholland The Very Sad Tale of the Matches / Heinrich Hoffmann The Man-Tiger / Anonymous The Hours in the Life of a Lousy-Haired Man, Episode from Maldoror Varney, the Vampyre / James Malcolm Rymer The Horla / Guy de Maupassant A Carrion / Charles Baudelaire [Pit and the Pendulum]( / Edgar Allan Poe [Black Cat]( / Edgar Allan Poe [Birthmark]( / Nathaniel Hawthorne La Belle Helene / Prosper Merimee Nuckelavee / Anonymous La Bella Dame Sans Merci / John Keats Isabella, or The Pot Basil The Erl-King / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Count de Gernande, Episode from Justine / The Marquis de Sade Lord Randal / Anonymous The Painted Skin / P'u Sung-ling Satan at the Gates of Hell, from Paradise Lost, Book II / John Milton The Milk-White Doo / Anonymous The Wife of Usher's Well / Anonymous Bluebeard / Charles Perrault The Vampire, Episode from The Golden Ass / Lucius Apuleius Jael / Book of Judges
Riquet à la houppe
"Primera reimpresión, 2003"--Title page verso. Includes activities for readers.
The tales of Mother Goose
Collection of favorite tales including Sleeping Beauty and Bluebeard.
Le petit chaperon rouge
Caperucita Roja lleva una torta y un tarrito de mantequilla hacia la casa de su abuela, pero en el camino se encuentra con el Lobo. Por trampas, el Lobo se las come a Caperucita Roja y su abuela. Little Red Riding Hood is taking a cake and little pot of butter to her grandmother's house, but on the way she meets the Wolf. By trickery, the Wolf eats both Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother.
Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye
In these two volumes bound as one are seven fairy tales each from Perrault and Andersen.
Le Chat botté
A poor young man gains a fortune and meets a beautiful princess when his cat outwits an evil giant.
Petite Chaperon rouge
A little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest on the way to visit her grandmother.
La barbe bleue
Un homme riche dont la barbe a la particularité d'être bleue a été marié de nombreuses fois mais toutes ses femmes ont disparu. La toute dernière apprend que son mari se prépare à partir en voyage. Il lui laisse une clé en lui interdisant de s'en servir. Curieuse, la jeune femme entre pourtant dans le cabinet interdit et y découvre les précédentes femmes assassinées.
Puss in Boots
When the miller died his younger son inherited only the cat which proved to be a remarkable animal as well as a good provider.
Zolotai͡a kniga luchshikh skazok mira
A collection of translations/adaptations from the world's best storytellers: Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Anderson and others.
Cinderella
"Fabletown's top agent must stop illegal trafficking in supernatural artifacts. But can Cindy foil the dark plot before Fabletown is exposed to the mundy world?" -- from publisher's web site.
Snow white
Cendrillon
Cendrillon is the original French name for Cinderella, the famous fairy tale by Charles Perrault.