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A Reading of Perrault’s “Cinderella”
— Cinderella, by William Morris For the English text of Charles Perrault‘s (January 12, 1628 – May 16, 1703) fairy tales, beautifully illustrated by Gustave Doré, click on fairy tales. For...
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Puss in Boots, revisited
Puss in Boots, by Warwick Goble (Photo credit: Google) Magical Cats: Puss in Boots (please click on this link to read the post) Fairy tales vs Fables We are revisiting a post. It was first published on...
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Further Musing on “Puss in Boots”
Project Gutenberg Puss in Boots is an etext provided by the Project Gutenberg. To obtain a list of Panchatantra stories, click on Panchatantra Stories. To obtain a list of writers of fables, or...
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How Eeyore Loses a Tail, Painlessly and Perhaps Beautifully
Modernity: Reversal of Archetypes In modern Children’s Literature, there is a tendency to reverse archetypes. In Kenneth Grahame‘s, Wind in the Willows (1908), Mr Toad is the anthropomorphic and...
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Donkey-Skin: a Motif Labelled “Unnatural Love”
Donkey-Skin, by Nadezhda Illarionova* *Nadezhda Illarionova (Photo credit: Google Images) Donkey-Skin (Peau d’Âne) was written by Charles Perrault, in 1694. But it is also dated 1697 as Histoires ou...
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Bluebeard: Motifs & Suspense
Illustration in The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, by Harry Clarke (1889-1931), illustrator. London: Harrap (1922) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Charles Perrault‘s (1628-1703) Bluebeard, La Barbe bleue...
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Bluebeard Concluded
La Barbe Bleue, from the painting made Specially for the 1913 Christmas edition of “The Illustrated London News” by Kay Nielsen* *Available from The Spirit of the Ages (Photo credit: Google Images)...
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