Puss in Boots, Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, and other European fairy tales, recorded in classic French long before the Brothers Grimm. This paperback contains all of Perrault's "Contes en Prose" in a French-German parallel print, including the tales of Little Red Riding Hood and the Sleeping Beauty in the Woods (which is our Sleeping Beauty), Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, the Fairies, Cinderella, Riquet with the Tuft, and Tom Thumb. Charles Perrault (1628-1703) did not invent these fairy tales; rather, he took fairy tale themes that had been orally transmitted here and there and shaped them into literary form. His intention was to convey some decent "morals" to children through exciting narratives, while also aiming to provide an educated pleasure for adult readers and listeners. Both.