The story of Blue Beard

by Charles Perrault & Joseph E Southall (Illustrator)

First published:
19th century
Language: English
Content type: FictionJuvenile

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"The Story of Blue-Beard" by Charles Perrault is a French folktale first published in 1697. A wealthy nobleman with a dark history of vanished wives takes a new bride. When he leaves her alone in his palace with keys to every room but one forbidden chamber, her curiosity becomes overwhelming. What she discovers behind the locked door reveals a horrifying secret that puts her own life in mortal danger, leading to a desperate race against time. (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”.
- “Fairies”· via Open Library
Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical and project-gutenberg matched “Fairy tales”, “folklore”, “mythology”, and 1 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “Fairy tales” in the subject metadata and “Tales” in the subject metadata.
- “Fairy tales”· via Open Library
- “Tales”· via Open Library
- “folklore”· via Project Gutenberg
- “mythology”· via Project Gutenberg
- “Fairy tales”· in subject
- “Tales”· in subject

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Edition	Date	Publisher	Language	ISBN	Access	Links
Open Library record	1890	McLoughlin Bros.	English	—	No ebook	Open Library (opens in a new tab)
Project Gutenberg electronic edition Project Gutenberg metadata does not identify the source print edition.	2013-11-26	Project Gutenberg	English	—	Public domain (USA)	Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)