The featured tale, “Bluebeard,” is an example of a gruesome, cautionary fairy tale with many variants around the world.īluebeard is a wealthy nobleman whose blue colored beard causes him to appear frightfully ugly. Perrault’s Fairy Tales presents the eight stories originally published by Perrault beside 19th-century illustrations by Gustave Doré. Each story ends with one or more morals authored by Perrault. As many of Perrault’s stories were based on German folklore, different versions of some of these stories also appear in Grimm collections. His work greatly influenced Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm when they began collecting German fairy tales more than a century later. Politics, Satire, and the Prince Regentīy using folktales from European tradition as the basis of his stories, Perrault laid the foundations for a new literary genre.Skazki: Tales and Legends of Old Russia.Princess Splendor: The Wood Cutter's Daughter.Bibliography for the Making of Star Wars.Letters from the Conde de Montemar Collection.Gazing at the Spanish Viceroyalty from Afar.Early Empire, Exploration, and Conquest.
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