The Tales of Mother Goose

by Charles Perrault, Charles Welsh (Translator), Jeremy M Robinson (Editor)

Overview

THE TALES OF MOTHER GOOSE

CHARLES PERRAULT

Translated by Charles Wels

Illustrated by Gustave Doré

A wonderful collection of classic fairy tales by Charles Perrault, the most famous author of French conte de fées, translated into English by Charles Welsh in the 19th century and illustrated by the French genius artist Gustave Doré. Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Sleepy Beauty, Puss In Boots, Bluebeard, and Little Red Riding Hood are some of the classic fairy tales in this new edition of the 19th century book. Includes an introduction by M.V. O'Shea.

Fully illustrated, with an introduction. 132 pages. Large format (189 x 246mm). Paperback, with a full colour cover. www.crmoon.com

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781861715852
Publisher:	Crescent Moon Publishing
Publication date:	11/02/2020
Pages:	132
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

The Man Charles Perrault (1628-1703) was a member of the Académie Française and a leading intellectual of his time. Ironically, his dialogue Parallèles des anciens et des modernes (Parallels between the Ancients and the Moderns), 1688-1697, which compared the authors of antiquity unfavorably to modern writers, served as a forerunner for the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, an era that was not always receptive to tales of magic and fantasy. The Stories Perrault could have not predicted that his reputation for future generations would rest almost entirely on a slender book published in 1697 containing eight simple stories with the unassuming title: Stories or Tales from Times Past, with Morals, with the added title in the frontispiece, Tales of Mother Goose. The original title, in French, was Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralités: Contes de ma mère l'Oye. Charles Perrault, in a symbolically significant gesture, did not publish the book in question under his own name but rather under the name of his son Pierre. Perrault chose his stories well, and he recorded them with wit and style. His narratives belong to a story-telling tradition that has been shared by countless generations. He did not invent these tales -- even in his day their plots were well known -- but he gave them literary legitimacy.