Along with the collections of Andersen, Lang, and the Brothers Grimm, the Fairy tales of Charles Perrault is among the great books of European fairy tales. These stories have been enjoyed by generation after generation of children in many countries, and are here, waiting to be enjoyed again. Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper, is an Italian folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression. The first written version was published in Napoli by Giambattista Basile, in his Pentamerone. The story itself was based in the Kingdom of Naples, at that time the most important political and...