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83 of 93 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Preachy re-telling of Cinderella story is nauseating,
By D. Summerfield (Missoula, Montana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cinderella (Kindle Edition)
Granted this is a freebie on your Kindle, but this version of the Cinderella story is so interwoven with preachy moral lessons as to be almost comical -- kind of like a bad Saturday Night Live sketch. It's not really worth your time.
This blanded-down version of the Cinderella tale is based upon what is generally-agreed upon as the definitive "first" Cinderella, which is by a French author named Charles Perrault, printed in 1697. What is added here is a bunch of "lessons" which children should learn by the story. For example, when Cinderella is late leaving the ball, thus necessitating her walking home in rags, the author tells his readers: "[This] is an everlasting lesson to all the pretty little Cinderellas in the world to keep their word, and to act in good faith by such as befriend them." The best Cinderella for my money is still the Brothers Grimm version, first printed in 1812 and revised in 1819, where Cinderella's evil step-sisters end up cutting off their own toes with a knife to try and force their feet into the glass slipper, and for good measure have their eyes pecked out by birds in the end. Gotta love those blood-thirsty Grimm Brothers. In this sugary version, Cinderella is so good that she gags you, and the step-sisters have no come-uppance at all. You can find both the original Perrault version of Cinderella, and the darker Brothers Grimm version, on the Internet for free. I would recommend that you not waste your time with this version, unless it's for the laugh factor of all the stupid moralizing.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A cute, perhaps over-cute version of an ancient tale.,
By Israel Drazin (Boca Raton, Florida) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
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This review is from: Cinderella (Paperback)
This rather over-cute and moralistic version of the ancient Cinderella story was written to emphasize, as many religions do, that virtue should be practiced because it is rewarded. Nine year old Cinderella, whose true name is not revealed, listens to her mother tells her as she is dying to bear everything with patience.
Her father decides to remarry so that his daughter will have a step mother to care for her. He chooses badly and the step mothers with her two daughters mistreat the girl badly. She has to sit among the cinders of the chimney and, therefore, she is called Cinderella or Cinder-Wench. Nothing more is told about the father. We do not know whether he was still alive during the subsequent episodes. We also do not know how old the girl is in the subsequent episodes. Surely she cannot still be nine. When the prince arranges a ball and invites everyone, the step sisters have Cinderella prepare cloths for them and give them advice how to act because despite mistreating her, they knew that she had good taste. Cinderella, very virtuously helps her tormentors. The rest of the tale is well known. Suffice it to add that virtuous Cinderella merited help from the fairy godmother because she treated her well when the fairy came to her disguised as a poor hungry old lady. Cinderella, true to form, later gives her step sisters some of the food that the prince gave her. Also after she married the prince, she arranged good marriages for the two step sisters.
19 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Classic Fairy Tale,
By Eileen T (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cinderella (Kindle Edition)
Everybody knows the Cinderella story. Most of us probably also seen the movie. But I have never read the original version. I really enjoy reading the classic fairy tale in its original context. Only wish illustrations can be seen in the kindle version, too.
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