lauraღ's Reviews > The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French

2.5 stars. I wanted to read some classic fairy tales from the source, since I have vague future plans of reading a few retellings based on some of these. I realised soon after borrowing that this isn't the source; the translator pretty much rewrote the stories after translating them, and put his own spin on most of them. Particularly Beauty and the Beast by de Villeneuve. And he also adjusted the Perrault stories, I believe. Ah well. It was still an enjoyable read. Not as much whimsy as I would have expected to get, and quite a lot more moralising than I did expect, but still good. Listened to the audiobook as read by Roe Kendall, who has one of those lovely, classic voices. I'm not quite confident enough in my French to read the old French straight from the source, so I guess until I am, this'll have to do.