Daniel Egnéus

I thought I had already read the original, yet this one wasn't marked as read. While listening to an audio version I did some Googling and learned I had read the Charles Perrault version, written 100 years earlier. What's interesting is that I had thought the Brothers Grimm wrote "original" (as far as publishing goes) dark fairy tales, but Charles Perrault is the true king of early dark fairy tales. The Brothers Grimm version is likely the one you heard as a kid and it has some good-over-evil triumph compared to the "horrible things happened that would never happen in real life but here's the moral" Perrault style.… (more)