Charles Perrault
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'She promised her godmother that she would not fail to leave the ball before midnight, and away she went, beside herself with delight...' Charles Perrault's time-honored stories have been passed down from the seventeenth century to the present day, giving us the classic fairy tales that people of all ages know and adore: Cinderella, with the glass slipper that...
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It is to Perrault that we owe our acquaintance with the greater number of good old-fashioned fairy-tales, but an edition of these, although it includes such intimate friends of our childhood as Blue Beard, the Sleeping Beauty, and Little Red Riding-Hood, is hardly complete without "Beauty and the Beast", a version of this tale, by Mme. Le Prince de Beaumont, has, therefore, been added to this collection. It has also been increased, space permitting...
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Cinderella is trapped by her evil stepmother and stepsisters who make her work nonstop. She often finds herself dreaming while being forced to do housework and, one night, her fairy godmother decides to make one of her dreams come true. With a little bit of magic, Cinderella finds herself going to a ball to meet the prince, but will it last?
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The fairy tale Little Thumbling is written by Charles Perrault. LIttle Thumbling is the youngest and smallest at home. One day all the brothers end up at the house of a giant who wants to eat them. But Little Thumbling outsmarts the giant! The moral of the story is: even if you are small, you can do great things. Recommended for age 4+.
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When a poor miller dies, his three sons are given their inheritance. The eldest son is given the mill, the middle son is given his donkey, leaving the youngest son with almost nothing: a cat the family believes to be useless. But Puss isn't any old cat. Not only can he talk, but he's incredibly cunning. He sets out to make the young man's fortune, proving that he didn't get such a bad deal after all.
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A "modern" young woman of the 16th century, Daniell (Drew Barrymore) is as independent and wise as she is beautiful and kind. Against remarkable odds, she stands up to her scheming stepmother (Anjelica Huston) and works miracles on the lives of everyone around her, including the crown prince of France (Dougray Scott).
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An anthology of time's most beloved stories, written and adapted by the world's most well-known fairy tale authors, and narrated by a variety of great storytellers.
Stories include Puss in Boots, What Jack Horner Did, Rapunzel, The Ugly Duckling, The Three Little Pigs, Jack and Jill, The Elves and the Shoemaker, Little Red Riding Hood, Snowdrop, Pussy-Cat Mew, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Emperor's New Clothes, The...