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An early 19th century engraving depicting Perrault and his tales

Histoires ou contes du temps passé (trans. "Stories or Fairy Tales from Bygone Eras")^[1] is a collection of eight literary fairy tales written by Charles Perrault and published by Barbin in Paris in January 1697.^[1] The book's contents include "Sleeping Beauty", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Bluebeard", "The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots", "Diamonds and Toads", "Cinderella", "Riquet with the Tuft", and "Hop o' My Thumb". The book met with instant success and has remained popular. Histoires was first translated into English by Robert Samber as Histories or Tales of Times Past, By M. Perrault and published in London in 1729. The frontispiece of the English edition depicts an old woman telling tales to a group of children beneath a placard reading 'MOTHER GOOSE'S TALES' and is credited with launching the Mother Goose legend in the English-speaking world.^[2]

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• Opie, Iona; Peter Opie (1974), The Classic Fairy Tales, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-211559-6 
• Paradiž, Valerie (2005), Clever maids: the secret history of the Grimm fairy tales, Basic Books, ISBN 0738209171 

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