TY - BOOK AU - Perrault,Charles AU - Hall,John H. TI - The Popular Story of Blue Beard AV - PZ PY - 2013/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Fairy tales KW - Bluebeard (Legendary character) -- Juvenile fiction KW - Curiosity -- Juvenile fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard; Release date is 2013-08-13; Produced by Chris Curnow, Sue Fleming and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Popular Story of Blue Beard" by Charles Perrault is a French folktale first published in 1697. The story follows a wealthy nobleman with a dark secret: his previous wives have all mysteriously vanished. When his new bride discovers a forbidden underground chamber filled with horrifying evidence of his crimes, she must find a way to escape his murderous wrath. This notorious tale has become so influential that "Bluebeard" itself entered the dictionary as a term for a serial wife-killer. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43457 ER -