Arthur Quiller-Couch retells four tales from the old French collections: Perrault’s Sleeping Beauty, Blue Beard and Cinderella, and the long Beauty and the Beast of Madame de Villeneuve. His witty preface explains how he gave up on translating the whole Cabinet des Fées and settled on these four.
Elegant English versions of the French fairy tales, first published alongside Edmund Dulac’s colour plates. Download the free EPUB.