Introduction

INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE

Advisory Editor Richard M. Dorson

Editorial Board Issachar Ben Ami Vilmos Voigt

_See last pages of this volume for a complete list of titles_

POPULAR TALES

[Charles Perrault]

Edited by Andrew Lang

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ARNO PRESS

A New York Times Company

Editorial Supervision: LUCILLE MAIORCA

Reprint Edition 1977 by Arno Press Inc.

Reprinted from a copy in The Princeton University Library

INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE ISBN for complete set: 0-405-10077-9 See last pages of this volume for titles.

Manufactured in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703. Popular tales.

(International folklore) Translation of selected tales from Contes. Reprint of the 1888 ed. published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford.

I. Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912. II. Title. III. Series.

PQ1877.A25 1977 398.2 77-70607 ISBN 0-405-10118-X

PERRAULT'S POPULAR TALES

LANG

London

HENRY FROWDE

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