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The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

Charles Perrault

First published September 1977
Type Collection

  • 10 stories
  • New translation from the French (and Foreword) by Angela Carter, 1977
  • "Translation of the collection generally known as: Contes des fées" --noted, {{LCCN|78-304710}} (not evidently quoted from the book)
  • Story titles differ from the 1922 collection with the same title (as does the sequence from 2nd to 5th), but the same collection of 10 stories is translated
  • "... for adult readers. Available in America only in this edition." --Avon Books advertisement, NY Times 1979-08-19 pBR8
  • See also the prize-winning picture book anthology Sleeping Beauty & Other Favourite Fairy Tales (1982), whose text is 12 stories translated from the French by Carter – the same ten stories by Perrault plus two by Leprince de Beaumont. ISFDB presumes the ten Perrault/Carter stories to be identical in the 1977 collection and the 1982 anthology.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1977 Cover The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault Gollancz Collection
April 1979 Cover The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault Bard / Avon Books Collection
December 2010 Cover The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault Petra Books Collection