THE ATHENAEUMThe Fairy Tales of Charles PerraultCharles Perrault
Fairy Tale
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textCharles Perrault, a civil servant at the court of Louis XIV, published Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots and Cinderella in 1697, under the name of his teenage son. His Red Riding Hood ends with the wolf eating her, and a moral in verse warning young ladies that the gentlest wolves are the most dangerous. This edition of 1922 was illustrated by Harry Clarke, the Dublin stained-glass artist.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 1 hr 55 min
- Where to find it
- The Deep Wood
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #29021. In the public domain in the United States.