Perrault's Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault, Gustave Doré (Dover Children's Classics) fungi The Seven-headed Serpent

The Seven-headed Serpent

Little Simon

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Perrault's Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault, Gustave Doré (Dover Children's Classics) fungi The Seven-headed SerpentHere are the original eight stories from the 1697 volume Contes de temps pass by the great Charles Perrault (1628 1703) in a translation that retains the charming and unsentimental simplicity that has won Perrault a permanent position in French literature. These were among the earliest versions of some of our most familiar fairy tales (Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, and Tom Thumb) and are still among the few