Sleeping Beauty & Other Favourite Fairy Tales

Schocken Books, 1984 - Fiction - 128 pages

All the stories are by Charles Perrault except two by Madame Le Prince de Beaumont.

Contents

• The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood: 9
• Puss in Boots: 26
• The Foolish Wishes: 41

About the author

A powerful and disturbing writer, Angela Carter created haunting fiction about travelers surviving their passage through a disintegrating universe. Often based on myth or fairy tale-borrowed or invented for the occasion-her work evokes the most powerful aspects of sexuality and selfhood, of life and death, of apocalypse. Carter's most successful novels include The Magic Toyshop (1967), which received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and Several Perceptions (1968), winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. The Passion of New Eve (1977), a story of the end of the world and its possible new beginning with failed mankind replaced by a self-generating womankind. She translated many fairy tales and wrote several collections of short stories, including The Bloody Chamber (1979) which won the Cheltenham Festival of Literature Award and was the basis for the powerful movie A Company of Wolves. She worked as a journalist and as a professor at Brown and the University of Texas. She published two nonfiction books of interest: Nothing Sacred, selected writings, and The Sadeian Woman (1979). Michael Foreman was born in Pakefield, Suffolk on March 21, 1938. At the age of fifteen, Foreman began to study art. His first children's book was published while he was still a student. He earned his M. A. from the Royal College of Art and since then, has written and/or illustrated many children's books. After leaving art school Michael traveled all over the world making films and television commercials. He has also worked on magazines, book jackets, animated films, and TV ads. He even worked for the police, sketching criminals described by witnesses. Foreman has won the Kate Greenaway Award twice, the Smarties Book Prize, The Kurt Maschler Award, the Children's Book Award, the Bologna Book Prize and the Francis William's Illustration Award twice.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sleeping Beauty & Other Favourite Fairy Tales
• Photographs by: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
• Translated by: Angela Carter
• Illustrated by: Michael Foreman
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Schocken Books, 1984
• ISBN: 0805239219, 9780805239218
• Length: 128 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General; Social Science / Folklore & Mythology