This is a selection of Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault (with GEMs highlighted). The list below includes links for several associated items which may be available online for each book: (a) Wikipedia page, (b) e-book, and (c) audiobook. There is also a column called “More info” with links to optional posts on each book.
The French writer Charles Perrault was a pioneer in the art of writing fairy tales. He laid the foundation for this new literary genre with his groundbreaking book Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé (‘Stories or Tales from Past Times’), published in 1697. Although his stories were derived from earlier folk tales and were not entirely original, he was the first to present them in a form that appealed to young children as well as adults. Many of his famous tales such as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood were reworked by the Brothers Grimm and are often wrongly attributed to the latter, even though Perrault wrote his stories more than a hundred years earlier. The list of fairy tales published by Charles Perrault is relatively short, but nearly every one of them is a masterpiece.
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