Author(s): Jeanne De Beaumont; Gabrielle De Villeneuve; Brothers Grimm; Andrew Lang; Margaret Hunt (Translator); James Planche (Translator)

Fiction

Beauty and the Beast - All Four Versions includes the original, adult-oriented edition of the story by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (translated from the French by James Robinson Planch ), the simplified and shortened version by Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont which appeared sixteen years later, the Brothers Grimm adaptation and a somewhat forgotten version by Victorian folklorist and anthropologist Andrew Lang.

Beauty and the Beast - All Four Versions

Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve.

Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont.

The Singing, Springing Lark by the Brothers Grimm.

Beauty and the Beast by Andrew Lang.