Cover of Beauty and the Beast by Charles Perrault Audiobook Beauty and the Beast
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Beauty and the Beast

Author
Charles Perrault
Read by
Josh Verbae
Series
Children's Classics
Language
English
Length
39 minutes
ISBN
9781911144250
Published
15 November 2015
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Beauty
  • beast
  • Cinderalla
  • Sleeping Beauty
  • fairy tale
  • children
  • magic
  • bedtime
  • stories
  • folklore

Description

There was once a merchant, who was very, very rich. He had six children, three boys and three girls, and as he was a man of good sense, he spared no expense in order that they might be well educated, and gave them masters of every kind. His daughters were all beautiful, but his youngest one was especially admired, and from the time she was a small child, had been only known and spoken of as Beauty. Read in English, unabridged.

Author

Charles Perrault (1628–1703) set down the French fairy tales that still furnish childhood. A man of Louis XIV's court and the Académie Française, he gathered Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, and Little Red Riding Hood into forms polished enough for the salon and stubborn enough to keep their peasant bone. Perrault wrote as if wonder needed manners — and as if manners still hid wolves, pumpkins, and glass slippers.