Six ornate French fairy tales of magic and transformation, retold with wit by 17th–18th-century storytellers in modern translations.
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Six ornate French fairy tales of magic and transformation, retold with wit by 17th–18th-century storytellers in modern translations.
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Once upon a time, in the Paris of Louis XIV, five ladies and one gentleman-- all of them aristocrats-- seized on the new enthusiasm for "Mother Goose Stories" and decided to write some of them down. Telling stories resourcefully and artfully was a key social grace, and when they recorded these elegant narratives they consciously invented the modern fairy tale as we still know it today. For this beautiful anthology of six masterpiece wonder tales, Marina Warner gathered five writers with a specia...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Courtship, seduction, and love quests; some racy period intrigue
Violence & gore
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Fairy-tale perils, punishments, and deaths without extreme gore
Profanity
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No strong language present
Substance use
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No evidence found in available sources
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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One tale centers on gender disguise and cross-dressing intrigue
Religious content
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Brief period Christian references amid courtly fairy settings
Magic & witchcraft
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Fairies, curses, transformations, and enchantments drive every tale
Occult / demonology
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Fantasy fairy magic only; no real-world occult content
Political content
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Proto-feminist social commentary on court, gender, and power
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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Tyrants, forced trials, baneful spells, and fairy-tale cruelty
Other
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