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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. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop, won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize, and the next, Several Perceptions, the Somerset Maugham Award. She died in February 1992.

Angela Carter

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