Here, you'll find twenty-four stories, distributed as follows: Zipes went for compiling all the literary fairy stories from the 1600s and 1700s that most people, including B&B fans, don't know, and has made them available in this tome, in which he's also included a few non-B&B tales that are part of the salon literary production of the period. These are the very original ones, before and from round and after Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve's 1743 fairy tale that's the mother of them all. This is by and large the best anthology of "Beauty and the Beast" fairy tales out there, in my opinion, and I mean the original story that was conceived in the luxurious salons of the French nobility, not the countryside folktales of animal bridegrooms told by the peasantry, and definitely not retellings penned by contemporary authors.
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