Riquet with the tuft - Illustrated & Unabridged - With an introduction by Andrew Lang

by Charles Perrault, Warwick Goble (Illustrator), William Heath Robinson (Illustrator)

CHARLES PERRAULT (1628–1703)
RIQUET WITH THE TUFT

Original Riquet à la houppe (1697).
Warwick Goble (1862-1943).
English Charles Welsh (1850-1914).
Andrew Lang (1844-1912).
W. Heath Robinson (1872–1944).

Of all Perrault’s tales Riquet is the least popular. The story is short and simple. The touch of the traditional and popular manner in the story is the love of a woman redeeming the ugliness of a man.

18 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 23, 2021

About the author

Charles Perrault was a French author who laid foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, and whose best known tales, offered as if they were pre-existing folk tales, include: Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, Bluebeard, Hop o' My Thumb), Diamonds and Toads, Patient Griselda, The Ridiculous Wishes...

Perrault's most famous stories are still in print today and have been made into operas, ballets (e.g., Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty), plays, musicals, and films, both live-action and animation.

The Brothers Grimm retold their own versions of some of Perrault's fairy tales.