Sleeping Beauty: And Similar Tales (Fairy Tale Classics Collection)

Seven good fairies are invited to be godmothers to a long-awaited baby princess. They bless the baby with beauty, wit, grace, dance, song, and goodness. But one old fairy is angry that she was not invited. She curses the infant to prick her finger on a spindle and die.

All the spindles are burned and the child is hidden away, but it is not enough to escape the curse. In this classic story of fate, misfortune, and the triumph of goodness, it is up to a fairy and a prince to save the sleeping beauty from death and one hundred years of enchanted slumber.

This edition from the Fairy Tales Classics Collections includes the classic Charles Perrault Sleeping Beauty tale, as well as versions of "Sleeping Beauty" from Germany, Ireland, India, Italy, and France. It also includes beautiful illustrations from Margaret Evans Price, Anne Anderson, and Edmund Dulac.

"Sleeping Beauty" includes the following stories:
Sleeping Beauty
The Glass Coffin (A German Tale)
The King of Erin and the Queen of the Lonesome Island (An Irish Tale)
Little Briar Rose (A German Tale)
The Petrified Mansion (A Tale from India)
Sun, Moon, and Talia (An Italian Tale)
The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (A French Tale)
Little Brier-Rose (A German Tale)