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Instead of glass slippers, she sported athletic sneakers while being taxied to an old factory on the edge of Downtown Syracuse. The scene was the furthest thing imaginable from a fairy tale.

A well-known rendering is that of Charles Perrault in Tales of Mother Goose, or Contes de ma mère l’oie (1697), and the story is also included in Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1812).

Fairy Tale Title Cinderella; Or the Little Glass Slipper Fairy Tale Author (s)/Editor (s) Charles Perrault Fairy Tale Illustrator (s) John Austen Common Tale Type Cinderella Tale Classification ATU ...