I love original fairy tales. They're dark and gritty and strangely familiar due to the watered down adaptations we know from Disney films. Credited to Charles Perrault are versions of some the most famous fairy tales known today, such as Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, and I love how magical and shocking they are here. 
 This collection is split in to two parts, the first part is a selection of tales told in verse where the second part is prose. Personally I preferred the latter half, since those stories were more familiar to me and it was interesting to see how the original tales influenced later versions. However, Perrault's poetry is equally clever and just as dark. 
 In the Oxford World Classics edition there's also some illustrations scattered throughout which is a nice little touch.