

Story Ī widower marries a very proud woman. The tale has been adapted to the stage, movies, television, and other media.


Tales similar to "Cinderella" exist in Chinese, Indian, African, Javanese, Australian, and Japanese literature and folklore. The Brothers Grimm included their version, "Aschenputtel", in Children's and Household Tales (1812). Similar European tales are found in Bonaventure des Periers's New Recreations and Joyous Games (1558) and Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone (1634-6). A prince, who has fallen in love with her, finds her lost slipper and uses it later to find her. She leaves the ball at midnight and loses her glass slipper. Her fairy godmother helps her travel to a dancing party in a pumpkin coach. The story is about a girl who who was treated badly. It was first published anonymously in Paris in 1697 in Histoires ou contes du temps passé (English: Stories or Tales of Past Times), a collection of eight fairy tales by Perrault. " Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper" is a fairy tale by Charles Perrault.
