Cover of The Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault Audiobook The Sleeping Beauty
Audiobook · Sovereign

The Sleeping Beauty

Author
Charles Perrault
Read by
Josh Verbae
Series
Children's Classics
Language
English
Length
24 minutes
ISBN
9781911144281
Published
15 November 2015
Imprint
Sovereign
  • The Sleeping Beauty
  • Charles Perrault
  • fairy tale
  • children
  • magic
  • bedtime
  • stories
  • folklore
  • good and evil
  • family

Description

Once upon a time there was a king and a queen, who were very sorry that they had no children,—so sorry that it cannot be told. At last, however, the Queen had a daughter. There was a very fine christening; and the Princess had for her godmothers all the fairies they could find in the whole kingdom (there were seven of them), so that every one of them might confer a gift upon her, as was the custom of fairies in those days. By this means the Princess had all the perfections imaginable. 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.