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Charles Perrault (1628-1703)
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
Translated by Robert Samber and J. E. Mansion
Illustrated by Harry Clarke (1889-1931)
Cover photo: Illustration by Harry Clarke (1889-1931)
Executive Editor Sam Vaseghi
Published by Wisehouse Classics – Sweden
ISBN 978-91-7637-140-4
Wisehouse Classics is a Wisehouse Imprint.
© Wisehouse 2016 – Sweden
© Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photographing, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the publisher.
CONTENTS
The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood
The Master Cat or Puss in Boots
Cinderilla; or, The Little Glass Slipper
Riquet with the Tuft
Little Thumb
The Ridiculous Wishes
Donkey-skin
1. “He asked her whither she was going”
2. “‘What is this I see?’ said her mother”
3. “‘Am I come hither to serve you with water, pray?’”
4. “This man had the misfortune to have a blue beard”
5. “‘What, is not the key of my closet among the rest?’”
6. “At this very instant the young fairy came out from behind the hangings”
7. “The prince enquires of the aged countryman”
8. “He saw, upon a bed, the finest sight was ever beheld”
9. “‘I will have it so,’ replied the Queen, ‘and will eat her with a Sauce Robert’”
10. “The Marquis gave his hand to the Princess, and followed the King, who went up first”
11. “Any one but Cinderilla would have dressed their heads awry”
12. “Away she drove, scarce able to contain herself for joy”
13. “She left behind one of her glass slippers, which the Prince took up most carefully”
14. “The Prince believed he had given her more wit than he had reserved for himself”
15. “Riquet with the Tuft appeared to her the finest Prince upon Earth”
16. “He brought them home by the very same way they came”
17. “Little Thumb was as good as his word, and returned that same night with the news”
18. “Jupiter appeared before him wielding his mighty thunderbolts”
19. “A long black pudding came winding and wriggling towards her”
20. “Truth to tell, this new ornament did not set off her beauty”
21. “He thought the Princess was his Queen”
22. “Another gown the colour of the Moon”
23. “Curiosity made him put his eye to the keyhole”
“Avec ardeur il aima les beaux arts.”
Griselidis
CHARLES PERRAULT MUST HAVE BEEN AS CHARMING A FELLOW AS A MAN could meet. He was one of the best-liked personages of his own great age, and he has remained ever since a prime favourite of mankind. We are fortunate in knowing a great deal about his varied life, deriving our knowledge mainly from D’Alembert’s history of the French Academy and from his own memoirs, which were written for his grandchildren, but not published till sixty-six years after his death. We should, I think, be more fortunate still if the memoirs had not ceased in mid-career, or if their author had permitted himself to write of his family affairs without reserve or restraint, in the approved manner of modern autobiography. We should like, for example, to know much more than we do about the wife and the two sons to whom he was so devoted.
Perrault was born in Paris in 1628, the fifth son of Pierre Perrault, a prosperous parliamentary lawyer; and, at the age of nine, was sent to a day-school—the Collège de Beauvais. His father helped him with his lessons at home, as he himself, later on, was accustomed to help his own children. He can never have been a model schoolboy, though he was always first in his class, and he ended his school career prematurely by quarrelling with his master СКАЧАТЬ