The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French - Illustrated by Edmund DulacThe Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French contains a collection of stories, adapted and translated by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer, who published under the pen-name of Q. Originally penned by such famed folklorists as Charles Perrault and Madame D’Aulnoy, these stories proved to their original seventeenth century readers that such works were important, enjoyable, as well as thought-provoking. The stories in this particular text encompass favourites such as ‘Sleeping Beauty, ‘Blue Beard’, ‘Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper’, and ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ This edition of Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales further contains a set of dazzling coloured illustrations by a true master of the ‘Golden Age’; Edmund Dulac (1882 – 1953). A French artist himself, Dulac had a particular affinity with these Old French tales as well as a rigorously painterly background. The end result was beautifully coloured images which further refined the wonderful stories of Perrault, D’Aulnoy – retold by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Appearing alongside the text, his illustrations enhance and elucidate the enchanting narratives. |
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The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French - Illustrated ... Arthur Quiller-Couch No preview available - 2012 |
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Ancien Régime answered arrived asked aviary awake ball Beast beautiful creature begged bell Blue Beard bodice brothers castle Charles Perrault child chimneycorner Cinderella close coach colour cramoisie cried curtain dance daughters door dream dressed drew eyes face Fairy Hippolyta Fairy Uglyane father gardens gave gazed glass slippers godmother gold goodbye hand happy heart horse husband jewels King and Queen King’s King’s son lady little Princess lived look Lord Chancellor married merchant mouse trap never night once opened palace parrots passed Perrault Poor Cinderella poor Fatima Prince Charming Prince Florimond Prince’s Princess Aurora promised pumpkins rose rubies scarcely seen sight Sister Anne sleep SLEEPING BEAUTY smiled sound stood supper sure tears tell thing thought told tomorrow touched tower trembling voice wand wish wonder word young