Cover of Cinderella by Charles Perrault Audiobook Cinderella
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Cinderella

Author
Charles Perrault
Read by
Josh Verbae
Series
Children's Classics
Language
English
Length
16 minutes
ISBN
9781911144267
Published
15 November 2015
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Cinderalla
  • Sleeping Beauty
  • fairy tale
  • children
  • magic
  • bedtime
  • stories
  • folklore
  • good and evil
  • family

Description

Once upon a time there was a gentleman who married, for his second wife, the proudest and most haughty woman that ever was seen. She had two daughters of her own, who were, indeed, exactly like her in all things. The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world. 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.