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natwc's review against another edition
5.0
Completely baffled by how some of the fairy tale stories I watched, like Beauty and the Beast, when I was a kid isn't really how the author wrote it and some of them I never heard of was so shocking to read that I can't believe is a children's story like Blue Beard. Absolutely loved all the stories though and I would definitely want to read it to my children to either read a good story to them or to teach them a story. After reading these stories, it makes me want to read other the other fairy tales that I watched when I was when I was a kid and see if it really went the same way as the movies projected it, like The Little Mermaid.
lsparrow's review against another edition
3.0
i love fairy tales and the many variations - there were definitely some new stories and variations in this collection as well as some of the well known classics. Not my favorite versions of these stories - I seem to like ones that are a little darker. Although many of these had many clearly sexualized undertones - especially fathers obsessed with marrying their daughters which I felt I had not heard before.
jbarr5's review against another edition
5.0
The complete fairy tales of Charles Perrault
Liked hearing of the stories and also about the author who wrote these in the 1670's.
Some of them are quite scary and gruesome and they all come with a moral or two at the end.
Had never heard of Bluebeard and Hop of My Thumb and Donkeyskin.
About the author and translations done are included at the end.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
Liked hearing of the stories and also about the author who wrote these in the 1670's.
Some of them are quite scary and gruesome and they all come with a moral or two at the end.
Had never heard of Bluebeard and Hop of My Thumb and Donkeyskin.
About the author and translations done are included at the end.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
shanviolinlove's review against another edition
2.0
It was fun revisiting Puss-n-Boots and The Foolish Wishes, but some of the others just sucker-punched me. Lots of violence and manipulation against women and children. "Patient Griselda" especially was painful to read.
this_is_the_way2's review against another edition
this book was a different kind of read for me than my usual books its a book of european myths and legends of witches and dwarfs and evil wizards of damsels in distress of redemption and revenge taken on evil from capture and such that had happened to the innocents of these tall tales from long long ago
i actually enjoyed this book even though it took longer that i thought to finish and it dragged for me at the end when i was nearly done with the book and i have to say this these stories can be quite gorey and brutal with heads being chopped off and other body parts i don't remember a lot of it but i do remember that a head was chopped off in one of the stories
i made this review short and sweet because theres not much to talk about the book besides the stories which i don't remember much of to be honest
i give this book a 7/10
i actually enjoyed this book even though it took longer that i thought to finish and it dragged for me at the end when i was nearly done with the book and i have to say this these stories can be quite gorey and brutal with heads being chopped off and other body parts i don't remember a lot of it but i do remember that a head was chopped off in one of the stories
i made this review short and sweet because theres not much to talk about the book besides the stories which i don't remember much of to be honest
i give this book a 7/10
loverofeels's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
3.5
I LOVE THE MORALS!!! fairy tales themselves were okay, most of them i'd read a million times before or seen the story formula a million times before so reading the narratives wasn't super exciting. but it was SO FASCINATING to see what a father in 1651 (?) expected kids/people to take away from these! had never ever occurred to me that little red riding hood might be construed as a story about rape but the moral perrault writes warns of leering men with luring tongues, like the wolf that leads red into bed? apparently the moral of sleeping beauty is that "ladies fair should yearn conjugal joys to share; and so i've not the heart to preach a moral that's beyond their reach"?? (even though this version doesn't involve beauty waking up from childbirth.) just so so interesting as a historical document.
beyond the morals, there's a few lines that felt so modern that it made me smile
-> "his Royal Highness took care not to tell [Sleeping Beauty] that she was dressed like his great grand-mother"
-> "The Queen said more than once to her son, in order to bring him to speak freely to her, that a young man must e'en take his pleasure."
-> "The Queen, who did not lack self-esteem, exacted this oath firmly believing that there was not her equal in the world, and so felt assured that the King would never marry again."
sighs with joy
part of the gothic lit class syllabus i stole from abigail! (specifically bluebeard)
beyond the morals, there's a few lines that felt so modern that it made me smile
-> "his Royal Highness took care not to tell [Sleeping Beauty] that she was dressed like his great grand-mother"
-> "The Queen said more than once to her son, in order to bring him to speak freely to her, that a young man must e'en take his pleasure."
-> "The Queen, who did not lack self-esteem, exacted this oath firmly believing that there was not her equal in the world, and so felt assured that the King would never marry again."
sighs with joy
part of the gothic lit class syllabus i stole from abigail! (specifically bluebeard)
bealittlebrave's review
2.0
Obviously classics, and the drawings are beautiful. But honestly I just don't think fairytales are for me. It all felt a little shortchanged.
strawberrytheauthor's review against another edition
4.0
I’m sorry but what was going on in Charles Perrault’s head? So many sexist fairytales and murder and incest. However, they are fairytales and they were written well. Although I didn’t like some of the things in them I still enjoyed reading them.
yanzhao777's review against another edition
4.0
Classic fairy tales to be read along with Grimm's fairy tales.