The stepmother gave her the meanest work in the house to do she had to scour the dishes, tables, etc., and to scrub the floors and clean out the bedrooms.
She could not bear the goodness of this young girl, because it made her own daughters appear the more odious. The wedding was scarcely over, when the step-mother’s bad temper began to show itself. The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world. She had two daughters of her own, who were, indeed, exactly like her in all things.
Once upon a time there was a gentleman who married, for his second wife, the proudest and most haughty woman that ever was seen. Another version was later published by the Brothers Grimm in their folk tale collection Grimms’ Fairy Tales in 1812.īelow you can read Cinderella’s Fairy Tale in Charles Perrault’s version (1697) translated into English by Charles Welsh in 1901.Ĭinderella’s Fairy Tale by Charles Perrault original French version: here. The first literary European version of the story was published in Italy by Giambattista Basile in his Pentamerone in 1634 the version that is now most widely known in the English-speaking world was published in French by Charles Perraultin Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697. The Chinese story of Ye Xian, first attested in a source from around AD 860, is another early variant of the story.
The story of Rhodopis, recounted by the Greek geographer Strabo sometime between around 7 BC and AD 23, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt, is usually considered to be the earliest known variant of the Cinderella story. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world. Text translated into english by Charles WelshĬinderella, or “ The Little Glass Slipper“, is a folk tale embodying an element of unjust oppression and triumphant reward. Fairy Tale Cinderella The Tales of Mother Goose The Little Glass Slipperįairy tale for children Short stories for kids English Text
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