The most popular French fairy-tale retellings books

Fairy-tale retellings give old stories new life. The beauty, the beast, the glass slipper and the wolf return in darker, funnier or more romantic versions, often from a point of view the original ignored. Familiar and surprising at once. Only books in French are listed.

Combines Fairy tales and Retelling

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Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

1895 · 2019 edition

768 pages

L'Odyssée
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L'Odyssée

Homer, Florence Cognard

1875 · 1994 edition

125 pages

L'Île au trésor
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L'Île au trésor

Robert Louis Stevenson

1970 · 1999 edition

480 pages

Peter Pan
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Peter Pan

James Matthew Barrie

1970 · 2015 edition

64 pages

Black Beauty
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Black Beauty

Anna Sewell

1970 · 2010 edition

280 pages

Le lapin de velours
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Le lapin de velours

Margery Williams Bianco, Sarah Massini

1970 · 2017 edition

61 pages

Sortilège
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Sortilège

Alex Flinn

2007 · 2009 edition

331 pages

Son of a Witch
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Son of a Witch

Gregory Maguire

2005 · 2022 edition

416 pages

La clef d'or
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La clef d'or

George Donald

1971 · 1980 edition

89 pages