Cover of Fairy Tales for Adults Volume 6 by Charles Perrault Ebook Fairy Tales for Adults Volume 6
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Fairy Tales for Adults Volume 6

Author
Charles Perrault, Anton Chekhov, O. Henry
Series
Ideas for Life
Language
English
Length
44 pages
ISBN
9781911263340
Published
15 March 2016
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Charles Perrault
  • Anton Chekhov
  • O. Henry Beauty
  • beast
  • Sleeping Beauty
  • fairy tale
  • mindful
  • children
  • magic
  • bedtime

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Perrault’s Little Red Riding-Hood and Sleeping Beauty; Chekhov’s looking-glass marriages; O. Henry’s Gift of the Magi. A mixed stocking: French night-fear, Russian irony, a New York sacrifice. Tales that still know what a gift costs. A wolf at a door, a spindle, a looking-glass, two Christmas gifts sold for each other. The volume hops centuries and still lands on the same nerve: what you risk for love, and who pays. A wolf, a spindle, two Christmas gifts sold for each other.

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.

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