by Charles Perrault;Gustave Dore
I love fairy tales, but mostly I've been reading retellings of them since forever - I don't even know if I've ever gone through the heavier, more original stuff before. They're awesome. Predictably, some of the spellings and grammar and word usages are odd, but then, they were written and translat...
Once upon a time, long before farmboys arose to defeat Dark Lords and even longer before the rise of imagined histories attempting to be gritty in a way that removed most moral compasses from fantasy, there was the fairytale. A simple little literary beast masquerading as a story with a morality pla...
I actually read these while I was in France, but I reread a couple of them this week while my online group was discussing them. The online discussion reminded me how dark these stories were, full of violence and terror and unpredictability. The things we face in life, in other words. The things we s...
This is a brilliant book, with amazing but terrifying engravings by Dore. This edition of Perrault's fairy tales also include morals which read like rhyming verse, my favourite was the LRRH moral. This book is well worth the money if you are interested in fairy tales and the associated illustrations...
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