The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Charles Perrault
The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Charles Perrault
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The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood

Author: Charles Perrault

Narrator: Julie Ann Marra

Unabridged: 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/18/2025


Synopsis

Step into Charles Perrault’s timeless fairy tale of magic, love, and destiny — The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. When a beautiful princess is cursed by an offended fairy to prick her finger on a spindle and fall into an enchanted sleep for a hundred years, the entire kingdom slumbers with her. Hidden behind an impenetrable forest of thorns, the palace waits — silent, forgotten, and alive with magic.A century later, a brave young prince discovers the mysterious castle and awakens the princess with a kiss, beginning a tale that unfolds far beyond the familiar happily ever after. Filled with wonder, peril, and the haunting beauty of true love’s endurance, this classic version of Sleeping Beauty remains one of the most elegant and captivating fairy tales ever written.Narrated by Julie Ann Marra, this rendition captures the story’s full charm — from its enchanted beginnings to its darker, lesser-known conclusion.

About Charles Perrault

Charles Perrault was born in Paris on January 1628. Son of an upper-class burgeois family, he attended the best schools and became a lawyer in 1651. He wrote Parallels Between the Ancients and the Moderns, which compared the authors of antiquity unfavorably to modern writers, and became a member of the Academie Francaise in 1671.

His Stories or Tales from Times Past, with Morals: Tales of Mother Goose, published in 1697, gave him great popularity and opened up a new literary genre: fairy tales. Among his most famous versions of fairy tales are "Blue Beard," "Sleeping Beauty on the Woods," "Little Red Riding Hood," "The Master Cat or Puss in Boots," "Cinderella," "Little Thumb," and "Donkey Skin."
He died in Paris on May 1703.


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