ILLUSTRATED EDITION<br><br>
At the age of 67, French author Charles Perrault lost his employment and decided to focus on his children. In 1697 he published a collection of short stories based on existing folk tales, <i>Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé</i>.
These stories, presented in this volume, are some of the most well-known children's stories in the western world, including <i>Le Petit Chaperon Rouge</i> (<i>Little Red Riding-Hood</i>), <i>Cendrillon</i> (<i>Cinderella</i>), <i>Le Chat Botté</i> (<i>Puss in Boots</i>), and <i>La Belle au Bois Dormant</i> (<i>The Sleeping Beauty</i>). Because of this collection of short morality stories, Perrault is often credited with creating the literary genre of the fairy tale.<br><br>
Other bilingual books available from Sleeping Cat Press:<br>
<i>The Picture of Dorian Gray<br>
Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe<br>
The Fables of Jean de La Fontaine<br>
Candide<br>
Shakespeare's Sonnets<br>
New Fairy Tales for Small Children<br>
The Count of Monte Cristo (Unabridged)<br>
The Last of the Mohicans<br>
Madame Bovary</i>
