The Tales of Mother Goose (As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696) - Couverture souple

Perrault, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1428003150 ISBN 13 : 9781428003156

Editeur : IndyPublish, 2006

Synopsis

The Man Charles Perrault (1628-1703) was a member of the Académie Française and a leading intellectual of his time. Ironically, his dialogue Parallèles des anciens et des modernes (Parallels between the Ancients and the Moderns), 1688-1697, which compared the authors of antiquity unfavorably to modern writers, served as a forerunner for the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, an era that was not always receptive to tales of magic and fantasy. The Stories Perrault could have not predicted that his reputation for future generations would rest almost entirely on a slender book published in 1697 containing eight simple stories with the unassuming title: Stories or Tales from Times Past, with Morals, with the added title in the frontispiece, Tales of Mother Goose. The original title, in French, was Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralités: Contes de ma mère l'Oye. Charles Perrault, in a symbolically significant gesture, did not publish the book in question under his own name but rather under the name of his son Pierre. Perrault chose his stories well, and he recorded them with wit and style. His narratives belong to a story-telling tradition that has been shared by countless generations. He did not invent these tales -- even in his day their plots were well known -- but he gave them literary legitimacy.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding French paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot

Présentation de l'éditeur

"The Tales of Mother Goose" from Charles Perrault. French author and member of the Académie française (1628-1703).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: IndyPublish
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1428003150
• ISBN 13: 9781428003156
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 68
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• Personne responsable: non disponible