Loved itSo, I think this is a nice way to kind of like experience those stories and also to maybe like dip your toe into reading original fairy tales if you haven't really done much of that before because these are really fun and quite dark.
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (2010)
Others: Positive In eighteenth century France, Charles Perrault rescued from the oral tradition fairy tales that are known and loved even today by virtually all children in the West. Angela Carter came across Perrault's work and set out to adapt the stories for modern readers of English. In breathing new life into these classic fables, she produced versions that live on as classics in their own right, marked as much by her signature wit, irony, and subversiveness as they are by the qualities that have made them universally appealing for centuries.
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