Little Red Riding Hood and other classic French fairy tales

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Zipes Jack, 1937-
Published: Penguin Books,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: 2011.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: 262 p.: ; 20 cm.
ISBN: 9780143120230
0143120239
Index Number: I565
CLC: I565.73
Call Number: I565.73/L778
Contents: "Selections from Beauties, Beasts and Enchantments."
Charles Perrault: The master cat, or, Puss in boots -- Cinderella, or, The glass slipper -- Blue Beard -- Little Thumbling -- The sleeping beauty in the woods -- Riquet with the tuft -- Little Red Riding Hood -- The fairies -- The foolish wishes -- Donkey-Skin -- Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier: The discreet princess, or, The adventures of Finette -- Charlotte-Rose Caumont de la Force: The good woman -- Henriette Julie de Murat: The palace of revenge -- Jean-Paul Bignon: Princess Zeineb and King Leopard -- Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont: Beauty and the beast -- Prince Désir and Princess Mignone -- Mademoiselle de Lubert: The Princess Camion -- Marie-Catherine D'Aulnoy: Beauty with the golden hair -- The ram -- The green serpent.
Grimm and Andersen's French predecessors give their revisions--among the earliest in writing--of famous fairy tales, from "Beauty and the Beast" to "Blue Beard."