Product Description: Grimm and Andersen's French predecessors give their revisions--among the earliest in writing--of famous fairy tales, from "Beauty and the Beast" to "Blue Beard."

The original, seventeenth-century French fairy tale, 'Belle and the Beast'--the basis of the contemporary Disney motion picture and Broadway musical--is joined by other beloved tales, including 'Cinderella,' 'Sleeping Beauty,' and 'Little Red Riding Hood.' Original.

Designed for gift giving, an illustrated collection of classic fairy tales, rendered in modern prose by such celebrated authors as A. S. Byatt and John Ashbery, explores the battle of good and evil and the endless quest for love. (view table of contents)

A collection of French fairy tales originally written in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.