Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales From the Old French
    Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales From the Old French
    Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales From the Old French
    Audiobook2 hours

    Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales From the Old French

    Written by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

    Narrated by mlcui

    ()

    About this audiobook

    What began as a translation project became a retelling of four classic fairy tales from the Cabinet des Fees, the French collection of over forty volumes. "Certainly the translations, when finished, did not satisfy me, and so I turned back to the beginning and have rewritten the stories in my own way, which (as you may say with the Irish butler) “may not be the best claret, but ’tis the best ye’ve got.”—Preface - Summary by mlcui
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales From the Old French

    Related to Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales From the Old French

    Related audiobooks

    Children's Legends, Myths & Fables For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Time Out

      Nov 22, 2019

      Alright, I know that Herman Melville isn’t everyone’s cup of tea (or should that be coffee, given that Starbucks is named after a character in Moby Dick?), but anyway, I’m going to argue its case. First up, I realise that the book is as thick as a wh

      4 min read

    • Article

      Once Upon A Time...

      Sep 1, 2022

      Back in 1992, folklorist, writer and poet Neil Philip published a book called The Penguin Book of English Folktales. Meticulously researched, it was a treasure trove of English folk stories, featuring versions of more than 100 folktales told as they

      1 min read

    • Article

      German Lessons

      Nov 14, 2019

      German Lessons
      9 min read

    • Article

      A Triumphant Third Volume

      Mar 15, 2023

      THIRTY-odd years ago, I attended French language evening classes at the French Institute in Edinburgh. While my school French was OK, I wanted to get better. One of my fellow students asked the tutor what the phrase would be to indicate that she was

      3 min read

    • Article

      Book Reviews

      Apr 21, 2022

      |★★★★★ Excellent|★★★★ Very Good|★★★ Good|★★ Fair|★ Poor| By Jim McBride, softback, 64 pages, published by the Donegal Railway Heritage Centre, priced (in euros) - 17 euros-ISBN 9 781874 518099. In the north west of Ireland the Londonderry and Lough S

      2 min read

    • Article

      Back Draft: Lisa Dillman

      Jan 13, 2021

      The translator on selecting her subjects, discovering the work of Andrés Barba, and the dangers of cultural hegemony.

      7 min read

    • Article

      Walter Keeler: Shards of Life

      May 12, 2023

      NM: It occurred to me that you really enjoy how stories thread themselves within and around objects, so I was hoping we could use the ceramic shards you have collected since childhood as a timeline to explore your life with clay; how they each contai

      23 min read

    • Article

      Start Right

      Jul 1, 2021

      Start Right
      2 min read

    • Article

      My Golden Book Of Hours

      Jun 1, 2022

      My Golden Book Of Hours
      4 min read

    • Article

      Experimenting With Form

      Feb 4, 2021

      Experimenting With Form
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Unglamorous Ordeal of Recording Your Own Audiobook

      Mar 29, 2017

      It was around noon of my third grueling day recording the audiobook of my first novel, The Gargoyle Hunters, when my innermost self cried out to be heard. I mean this literally. The disembodied voice of my director burst into my headset to inform me

      7 min read

    • Article

      Best Translated Book Awards Spotlight: The Millions Interviews Linda Coverdale

      Jun 13, 2019

      As a translator, I’m responsible for providing information encoded in the text that's more easily accessible to a native reader, as discreetly as possible. The post Best Translated Book Awards Spotlight: The Millions Interviews Linda Coverdale appear

      11 min read

    • Article

      Simply Impossible

      Oct 22, 2018

      Simply Impossible
      6 min read

    • Article

      Poems In Practice

      Aug 6, 2020

      Perhaps you are unsure as to whether to write a lyrical poem or a narrative. You might find it helpful to write a poem in the form of the terza rima as this is a form that fits both categories. It can be a philosophical poem or one that is more flipp

      1 min read

    • Article

      Variations On Perfection

      May 19, 2021

      Variations On Perfection
      6 min read

    • Article

      Opening Lines: Get Them Right … or Else!

      Dec 11, 2023

      Opening lines—get them right … or else! Or else your readers won’t want to keep reading. This means that your novel, memoir, story, or essay won’t get published or won’t reach many readers. Yikes! That reads like the opening to a horror story for wri

      4 min read

    • Article

      Go With The Flow

      Mar 28, 2024

      Go With The Flow
      4 min read

    • Article

      Heb’s Up

      Jul 22, 2022

      Heb’s Up
      2 min read

    • Article

      Buyers: Beware

      Feb 14, 2021

      Buyers: Beware
      2 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Chris Power

      Dec 20, 2018

      I read a mixture of books that I had to for review, and others I felt a sudden compulsion to pick up to postpone reading with a deadline attached to it. The post A Year in Reading: Chris Power appeared first on The Millions.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Building Struggles

      Jan 5, 2023

      Building Struggles
      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales From the Old French

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words