The Sleeping Beauty And Other Fairy Tales From The Old French (Unabridged)

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 “may not be the best claret, but ’tis the best ye’ve got.” —Preface