The Tales of Mother Goose

The Tales of Mother Goose

Title: The Tales of Mother Goose
Author: Charles Perrault
Release: 1703-05-16
Kind: ebook
Genre: Fairy Tales, Myths & Fables for Young Adults, Books, Young Adult, Fiction for Young Adults
Size: 514324
This fantastic book contains the original tales from 1696 of Cinderella (or the Little Glass Slipper), The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Little Thumb, The Master Cat (or Puss in Boots), Riquet of the Tuft, Blue Beard, The Fairy and Little Red Riding-hood. 'What virtues do these stories possess that have kept them alive for so long a time? They have to some degree stimulated and nourished qualities of supreme worth in individual and social life. 'This is a high quality book of the original classic edition from 1696. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, finally, back in print. This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: Some said that it was an old haunted castle, others that all the witches of the country held their midnight revels there, but the common opinion was that it was an ogre's dwelling, and that he carried to it all the little children he could catch, so as to eat them up at his leisure, without [Pg 20]any one being able to follow him, for he alone had the power to make his way through the wood. . . . The King, his father, who was a good man, believed him; but his mother could not be persuaded that it was true; and seeing that he went almost every day a-hunting, and that he always had some excuse ready for so doing, though he had been out three or four nights together, she began to suspect that he was married; for he lived thus with the Princess above two whole years, during which they had two children, the elder, a daughter, was named Dawn, and the younger, a son, they called Day, because he was a great deal handsomer than his sister. . . . The Ogress knew the voice of the Queen and her children at once, and being furious at having been thus deceived, she gave orders (in a most horrible voice which made everybody tremble) that, next morning by break of day, they should bring into the middle of the great court a large tub filled with toads, vipers, snakes, and all sorts of serpents, in order to have the Queen and her children, the chief cook, his wife and maid, thrown into it, all of whom were to be brought thither with their hands tied behind them.

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