Popular Tales is a collection of Charles Perrault's classic French fairy tales, edited by Andrew Lang. It includes well-known stories such as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Puss in Boots. It is worth listening to for its simple storytelling and its place in the history of fairy tales.
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POPULAR TALES This is a volume in the Arno Press collection INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE Advisory Editor Richard M. Dorson Editorial Board Issachar Ben Ami Vilmos Voigt See last pages of this volume for a complete list of titles POPULAR TALES
[Charles Perrault] Edited by Andrew Lang Illustration: New York Times Company Logo ARNO PRESS A New York Times Company New York / 1977 Editorial Supervision: LUCILLE MAIORCA Reprint Edition 1977 by Arno Press Inc. Reprinted from a copy in The Princeton University Library INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE ISBN for complete set: 0-405-10077-9 See last pages of this volume for titles. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703. Popular tales. (International folklore) Translation of selected tales from Contes. Reprint of the 1888 ed. published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford. I. Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912. II. Title. III.
Series. PQ1877.A25 1977 398.2 77-70607 ISBN 0-405-10118-X PERRAULT'S POPULAR TALES LANG London HENRY FROWDE Illustration: Arno Press Logo Oxford University Press Warehouse Amen Corner, E.C. PERRAULT'S POPULAR TALES EDITED FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITIONS, WITH INTRODUCTION, &c.