The Popular Story of Blue Beard by Charles Perrault
"The Popular Story of Blue Beard" by Charles Perrault is a French folktale first published in 1697. The story follows a wealthy nobleman with a dark secret: his previous wives have all mysteriously vanished. When his new bride discovers a forbidden underground chamber filled with horrifying evidence of his crimes, she must find a way to escape his murderous wrath. This notorious tale has become so influential that "Bluebeard" itself entered the
dictionary as a term for a serial wife-killer. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703 |
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| Engraver | Hall, John H., -1849? |
| Title | The Popular Story of Blue Beard |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebeard |
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Produced by Chris Curnow, Sue Fleming and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 58.5 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Fairy tales |
| Subject | Bluebeard (Legendary character) -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Curiosity -- Juvenile fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 43457 |
| Release Date | Aug 13, 2013 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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