TY - BOOK AU - Perrault,Charles AU - O'Shea,M.V. AU - Doré,Gustave AU - Munro,D.J. AU - Welsh,Charles TI - The Tales of Mother Goose: As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696 AV - PQPZ PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Fairy tales KW - Fairy tales -- France KW - Children's stories, French -- Translations into English N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoires_ou_contes_du_temps_pass%C3%A9; Release date is 2005-12-03; Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper -- The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood -- Little Thumb -- The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots -- Riquet of the Tuft -- Blue Beard -- The Fairy -- Little Red Riding-hood; Produced by Geetu Melwani, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Tales of Mother Goose" by Charles Perrault is a collection of literary fairy tales published in 1697. Written for aristocratic audiences in Parisian literary salons, this work transformed simple folk plots into elaborate stories suited for French court tastes. The collection includes eight now-classic tales, each concluding with a cynical moral. Perrault crafted these stories after retiring from royal service, blending ancient narratives with modern sensibilities while reflecting themes of nobility, class distinction, and Catholic values that resonated with his sophisticated readers. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17208 ER -