The fairy tales of Charles Perrault

Emma — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

In eighteenth century France, Charles Perrault rescued from the oral tradition fairy tales that are known and loved even today by virtually all children in the West. Angela Carter came across Perrault’s work and set out to adapt the stories for modern readers of English. In breathing new life into these classic fables, she produced versions that live on as classics in their own right, marked as much by her signature wit, irony, and subversiveness as they are by the qualities that have made them universally appealing for centuries.

Little Red Riding Hood

Emma — Thu, 10 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000

This collection of eight French contes collected by Charles Perrault in the last decade of the seventeenth century, contains perhaps the most famous fairy stories of all time – ‘Cinderella’, ‘The Sleeping Beauty’, ‘Puss in Boots’, ‘Blue Beard’ and of couse the eponymous ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. It quickly became the standard version of stories on these themes, was translated into innumerable languages and then re-entered the oral tradition of most European countries, particularly England. The Everyman edition contains the classic Heath Robinson illustrations from 1921.

Perrault, Charles – The Bell Bookshop

The fairy tales of Charles Perrault

Little Red Riding Hood