Perrault's fairy tales in a scintillating translation, including the less familiar verse tales and with illustrations by Gustave Dore. The introduction explores the imaginative power of the stories and the many interpretations to which they have been subject.

• Introduction


• Tales in Verse


• Preface


• The History of Griselda


• Three Silly Wishes


• Donkey-Skin


• Stories or Tales of Bygone Times, With Their Morals


• The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood


• Little Red Riding-Hood


• Bluebeard


• Puss in Boots


• The Fairies


• Cinderella


• Ricky the Tuft


• Hop o' my Thumb

Christopher Betts was a Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Warwick until retirement. He has translated Montesquieu's Persian Letters for Penguin, and Rousseau's Social Contract and Jean de La Fontaine's Selected Fables for Oxford World's Classics.