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The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141189956

  • Length: 112  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 6mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 89g

  • RRP: £10.99

The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

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.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141189956

  • Length: 112  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 6mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 89g

  • RRP: £10.99

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About the Author

Angela Carter

Angela Carter was born in 1940 and read English at Bristol University, before spending two years living in Japan. She lived and worked extensively in the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965, followed by the Magic Toyshop in 1967, which went on to win the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She wrote a further four novels, together with three collections of Short Stories, two works of non-fiction and a volume of collected writings. Angela Carter died in 1992

Angela Carter

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