Title: La belle et la bête

Title: La belle et la bête Title Record # 1781409
Author: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Date: 1757-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: French

Note: "La belle et la bête" ("Beauty and the Beast") is an anonymous European folk tale adapted by many authors. Its first French version is credited to Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve (1740). It reached fame in a later shortened version by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, published in 1757 in her Magasin des enfants.

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Year	Title
1757	La belle et la bête [as by J.-M. Leprince de Beaumont]

Year	Language	Title
1757^ⓘPer Locus3, this translation first appeared in <i>The Young Misses Magazine</i>, 1757. Translated by unknown hand.	English	Beauty and the Beast
1761	English	Beauty and the Beast [as by Madame Leprince de Beaumont]
1889^ⓘTranslated by an uncredited hand	English	Beauty and the Beast [as by La Princesse de Beaumont]
1921	English	Beauty and the Beast [as by Madame Leprince de Beaumont]
1964^ⓘTranslated by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=Alfred%20David&type=Name&mode=exact">Alfred David</a> & <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=Mary%20Elizabeth%20David&type=Name&mode=exact">Mary Elizabeth David</a>.	English	Beauty and the Beast [as by Madame Leprince de Beaumont]
1966	English	Beauty and the Beast [as by Mme. de Beaumont]
1974^ⓘTranslated by Juan Antonio Molina Foix	Spanish	La bella y la bestia [as by Madame Leprince de Beaumont]
1982^ⓘ<ul><li>Translated by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=Angela%20Carter&type=Name&mode=exact">Angela Carter</a>.<li>Perhaps a significant adaptation or retelling: In brief review of the 1982 collection, <i>NY Times</i> 1984-12-02 pBR52, Selma G. Lanes remarks "One wonders what 'translated' means", with reference to one of the stories from Perrault. </ul>	English	Beauty and the Beast [as by Madame Leprince de Beaumont]
1989^ⓘTranslated by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=Jack%20Zipes&type=Name&mode=exact">Jack Zipes</a>.	English	Beauty and the Beast
1998^ⓘTranslated by Stephen Corrin	English	Beauty and the Beast [as by Madame le Prince de Beaumont]
1999^ⓘTranslated by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=Maria%20Tatar&type=Name&mode=exact">Maria Tatar</a> & originally published in the anthology <i>The Classic Fairy Tales</i>.	English	Beauty and the Beast
2017	English	Beauty and the Beast [as by Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont]
2017^ⓘTranslated by an unknown hand	English	Beauty and the Beast [as by Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont]
2019	Portuguese	A bela e a fera

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Old Old Fairy Tales	1889-00-00	ed. Mrs. Valentine	Frederick Warne			viii+ 566	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Folk Tales of All Nations	1931-00-00	ed. F. H. Lee	George G. Harrap & Co.			xix+ 947	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Twelve Dancing Princesses, and Other Fairy Tales	1964-01-00	ed. Alfred David, Mary Elizabeth David	Signet / New American Library (Signet Classics)	CT205	$0.75^?$: US dollar	319	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth
Best Book of Fairy Tales	1966-00-00	ed. Pauline Rush Evans	Doubleday (Her Best Book Series)			286	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Adolph Le Moult
Horrorscope: Volumen 2	1974-00-00	ed. Juan Antonio Molina Foix	Alfaguara (Nostromo #8)	84-85118-16-2		247	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Diego Lara
Sleeping Beauty & Other Favourite Fairy Tales	1982-00-00	ed. Angela Carter	Gollancz	0-575-03194-8	£6.95^?£: UK pound	128	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Michael Foreman
Pesadillas de celuloide	1984-00-00	ed. Juan Antonio Molina Foix	Forum (Spain) (Biblioteca del Terror #57)	84-7574-227-0	ESP 175	95	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
Sleeping Beauty & Other Favourite Fairy Tales	1984-11-12	ed. Angela Carter	Schocken Books	0-8052-3921-9	$12.95^?$: US dollar	128	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Michael Foreman
Beauties, Beasts and Enchantment: Classic French Fairy Tales	1989-00-00	ed. Jack Zipes	NAL Books / New American Library	0-453-00693-0		viii+ 598	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Sleeping Beauty & Other Favourite Fairy Tales	1991-09-26	ed. Angela Carter	Gollancz	0-575-05086-1		128	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Michael Foreman
The Classic Fairy Tales	1994-00-00	ed. Iona Opie, Peter Opie	Oxford University Press	0-19-211559-6		255	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Le fantastique féminin d'Ann Radcliffe à Patricia Highsmith	1995-00-00	ed. Anne Richter	Complexe (Bibliothèque Complexe)	2-87027-578-1			tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic French Fairy Tales	1997-00-00	ed. Jack Zipes	Signet (Signet Classics)	0-451-52648-1		xxviii+ 430	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Eleanor Vere Boyle
The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales	1997-08-00	ed. Mike Ashley	Robinson	1-85487-508-6	£6.99^?£: UK pound	xii+ 628	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Frederick Goodall
The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales	1997-10-00	ed. Mike Ashley	Carroll & Graf	0-7867-0475-6	$10.95^?$: US dollar	xii+ 628	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Frederick Goodall
The Faber Book of Favourite Fairy Tales	1998-11-00	ed. Sara Corrin, Stephen Corrin	Faber and Faber	0-571-14854-9		x+ 244	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Juan Wijngaard
The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm	2001-00-00	ed. Jack Zipes	W. W. Norton & Company	0-393-97636-X		xiv+ 992	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Warwick Goble
The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales	2002-00-00	ed. Maria Tatar	W. W. Norton & Company (Annotated Books (Norton & Liveright))	0-393-05163-3	$35.00^?$: US dollar	xxii+ 446	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Warwick Goble , Jessie Willcox Smith , Arthur Rackham
Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World	2017-03-07	ed. Maria Tatar	Penguin Books (Penguin Classics)	978-0-14-311169-6	$16.00^?$: US dollar	240	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Mirko Hanák^?Mirko Hanak
Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic Stories	2017-03-09	ed. uncredited	Collins (Collins Classics)	978-0-00-823860-5	£2.50^?£: UK pound	128	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
Beauty and the Beast	2017-03-10	Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont	Enhanced Media Publishing	978-1-365-81406-8	$0.00^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	chap
Beauty and the Beast	2017-12-17	Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont		978-1-973569-88-6	$4.99^?$: US dollar	26	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	chap
Contos de Fadas em suas versões originais	2019-00-00	ed. Marina Avila	Editora Wish	978-85-67566-18-4	R$85.00^?R$: Brazilian real	448	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Old Old Fairy Tales	date unknown	ed. Mrs. Valentine	Frederick Warne			viii+ 566	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth

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