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Title: Popular Tales

Author: Charles Perrault

Editor: Andrew Lang

Release Date: October 13, 2010 [EBook #33931]

Language: English

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POPULAR TALES

_This is a volume in the Arno Press collection_

INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE

_Advisory Editor_
Richard M. Dorson

_Editorial Board_
Issachar Ben Ami
Vilmos Voigt

_See last pages of this volume
for a complete list of titles_

POPULAR TALES

[Charles Perrault]

Edited by
Andrew Lang

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ARNO PRESS

A New York Times Company

Editorial Supervision: LUCILLE MAIORCA

Reprint Edition 1977 by Arno Press Inc.

Reprinted from a copy in
The Princeton University Library

INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE
ISBN for complete set: 0-405-10077-9
See last pages of this volume for titles.

Manufactured in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703.
Popular tales.

(International folklore)
Translation of selected tales from Contes.
Reprint of the 1888 ed. published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford.

I. Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912. II. Title. III. Series.

PQ1877.A25 1977 398.2 77-70607
ISBN 0-405-10118-X

PERRAULT'S POPULAR TALES

_LANG_

London

HENRY FROWDE

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE

AMEN CORNER, E.C.

PERRAULT'S

POPULAR TALES

EDITED

_FROM THE ORIGINAL EDITIONS, WITH
INTRODUCTION, &c._

BY

ANDREW LANG, M.A.
LATE FELLOW OF MERTON COLLEGE

Oxford
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
MDCCCLXXXVIII

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_PREFACE._

_This edition of the stories of_ Perrault _is intended partly as an
introduction to the study of Popular Tales in general. The text of the
prose has been col