The Popular Story of Blue Beard : Embellished with neat Engravings
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard Adapted from Charles Perrault. Release date is 2014-04-14
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"The Popular Story of Blue Beard" by Anonymous and Charles Perrault is a French folktale first published in 1697. A wealthy nobleman with a dark secret proposes marriage to his neighbor's daughter. Despite her family's terror, she accepts and moves into his luxurious palace. When he departs on a journey, he grants her access to every room except one forbidden chamber. Overcome by curiosity, she enters—and discovers a horrifying truth about her husband's previous wives. Now she must escape his murderous wrath before becoming his next victim. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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