The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots / Der gestiefelte Kater (Bilingual Edition: English - German / Zweisprachige Ausgabe: Englisch - Deutsch)

This edition contains the English translation and the original text in German. "Master Cat; or, The Booted Cat " (Italian: "Il gatto con gli stivali "; French: "Le Maître Chat, ou Le Chat Botté "); commonly known in English as "Puss in Boots ", is an European literary fairy tale about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master. The oldest record of written history dates from Italian author Giovanni Francesco Straparola, who included it in his The Facetious Nights of Straparola (c. 1550-53) in XIV-XV. The tale was written at the close of the seventeenth century by Charles Perrault (1628-1703), a retired civil servant and member of the "Académie française ". Another version was published in 1634 by Giambattista Basile with the title "Cagliuso ". The tale appeared in a handwritten and illustrated manuscript two years before its 1697 publication by Barbin in a collection of eight fairy tales by Perrault called "Histoires ou contes du temps passé ". The book was an instant success and remains popular. Perrault 's "Histoires " has had considerable impact on world culture. The original French title was "Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralités " with the subtitle "Les Contes de ma m ère l 'Oye " ( "Stories or Fairy Tales from Past Times with Morals ", subtitled "Mother Goose Tales "). The frontispiece to the earliest English editions depicts an old woman telling tales to a group of children beneath a placard inscribed "MOTHER GOOSE 'S TALES " and is credited with launching the Mother Goose legend in the English-speaking world. "Puss in Boots " has provided inspiration for composers, choreographers, and other artists over the centuries. The cat appears in the third act "pas de caract ère " of Tchaikovsky 's ballet "The Sleeping Beauty ", for example, and makes appearances in other media. "Der gestiefelte Kater " ist ein M & auml;rchen (ATU 545B). Es stand in den Kinder- und Hausm & auml;rchen der Br & uuml;der Grimm nur in der 1. Auflage von 1812 als Nr. 33 (KHM 33a). In der modernen, von Heinz R & ouml;lleke herausgegebenen Ausgabe findet es sich als Nr. 5 im Anhang.