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Popular tales

Also known as Fairy tales; Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye; Les contes en vers et en prose (Contes de ma Mère Loye) suivis des Contes des feés

by Charles Perrault, Andrew Lang (Editor), Harry Clarke (Illustrator), Jean Edmond Mansion (Translator), Robert Samber (Translator), Planché, James Robinson, 1796-1880, comp. and tr & Marie Catherine Jumelle de Berneville Aulnoy

  • First published:
  • 17th century
  • Languages: Armenian, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese
  • Content type: FictionJuvenilePrimary source
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"Popular Tales" by Charles Perrault is a collection of fairy tales written in the late 17th century. This work includes well-known stories such as "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," and "Little Red Riding Hood," exploring themes of morality, love, and adventure through enchanting narratives and fantastical characters. Perrault's tales have significantly influenced the fairy tale genre and continue to capture the imaginations of readers across generations. At the start of the collection, an introduction provides context on Charles Perrault's life and literary contributions, emphasizing his role in popularizing stories that blend folk traditions with sophisticated literary style. The introduction highlights how these tales, originally oral traditions, made their way to the courts of France, where they were embraced by nobility and ultimately transformed into printed tales. Readers are drawn into the charm of these stories with familiar settings and characters, setting the stage for the magical narratives to unfold in the subsequent tales. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Legendary beings and transformations and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Legendary beings and transformations

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Fairies”.

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  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, online-books-page, openlibrary-historical, and project-gutenberg matched “Fairy tales”, “Folklore”, “folklore”, and 3 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “Tales” in the title, “Fairy tales” in the alternative title, “Tales” in the alternative title, and 5 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Fairy tales”· via Internet Archive
    • “Tales”· via Internet Archive
    • “Fairy tales”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Tales”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Fairy tales”· via Open Library
    • “Folklore”· via Open Library

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Editions

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Fairy tales

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1864-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon, New York, Routledge, Warne, and RoutledgeEnglish—Public digitized item

Les contes en vers et en prose (Contes de ma Mère Loye) suivis des Contes des feés

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1836-01-01T00:00:00ZParis Collection des grands classiques français et étrangersFrench—Public digitized item

Perrault's popular tales

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1888-01-01T00:00:00ZOxford, Clarendon pressEnglish—Public digitized item

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: New York Public Library
  • Contributing institution: Robarts - University of Toronto
  • Contributing institution: unknown library
  • Contributors: Bodkin, Thomas
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Digitization sponsor: University of Toronto
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Illustrators: Clarke, Harry
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 206 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
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  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: London: G. G. Harrap and Co., 1922
  • Translators: Mansion, J. E. (Jean Edmond); Samber, Robert
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