Table of Contents
AUTHOR’S NOTE
PERRAULT’S WORLD
PART ONE
1 Once upon a bed
2 A silver spoon
3 The art of love
4 The ugly Steppys sister
5 The cuckoo in the nest
6 Who’s the fairest
7 The kiss
8 After the ball
9 Potions
10 The wolf
11 Ruin
12 Quicksilver
13 Cindersweep
14 The sleuths
15 William
16 The beaded slippers
17 A proposition
18 A witch
19 The cure and the curse
20 Pluck
21 A tidy catch
22 Wish come true
23 Fond, foolish, wanton
24 Donkey’s skin
25 Rescue me
26 Life’s great secret
27 The (almost) truth
28 Civil liberties
29 The runaways
30 London
31 The quality of mercy
PART TWO
32 The king’s new clothes
33 Love is
34 The march
35 Amends
36 Such tiny feet
37 Of frogs and Englishmen
38 The fen-jade’s feather
39 Dragon’s claw
40 The assault
41 Pot of gold
42 The pumpkin
43 A miscarriage of fate
44 Bodegraven and Zwammerdam
45 The hero
46 Lost
PART THREE
47 A virgin
48 The customer
49 Beauty Asleep
50 Awakening
51 Puss in boots
52 Penelope
53 A carriage
54 Belle of the ball
55 The Labyrinth
56 Patience
57 The face that launched a thousand ships
58 The last laugh
59 The slipper
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