The Fairy

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"The Fairy" is one of the classic short tales included in Charles Perrault’s influential fairy-tale collection *Tales of Mother Goose*.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fairy tale
literary work
short story
alsoKnownAs Les Fées NERFINISHED
The Fairies NERFINISHED
author Charles Perrault NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin France
firstPublicationCollection Tales of Mother Goose NERFINISHED
genre children's literature
fairy tale
hasAdaptationType children's book adaptations
illustrated editions
hasCharacterType fairy
two daughters
widow
hasEducationalUse introducing classic fairy tales
teaching morals to children
hasForm prose narrative
hasInfluenceOn later European fairy tales
hasMoralFunction didactic tale
hasSupernaturalElement fairy godmother-type figure
includedIn Tales of Mother Goose NERFINISHED
influencedBy European folk tale tradition
languageFamilyOfOriginal Romance languages
literaryMovement early modern fairy tale
literaryTradition French fairy tale tradition
moral kindness brings rewards
rudeness brings misfortune
motif gifts from a supernatural being
moral contrast between siblings
narrativeStructure contrast between good and bad sister
originalLanguage French
partOf Charles Perrault's fairy-tale canon
period late 17th century literature
targetAudience children
general readers
theme kindness and reward
rudeness and punishment
vice punished
virtue rewarded

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Tales of Mother Goose hasPart The Fairy