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Bibliography: "La Barbe Bleue" by Perrault, Charles
- Title
- "La Barbe Bleue"
- Author
- Perrault, Charles
- Date
- Genre
- fiction
- Note Source
- Collected Short Fiction 1892-1912 97; 269
- Note Relating to Cather
- In "Eleanor's House," Harriet Westfield recalls "the door of the chamber"--the door that Bluebeard tells his current wife not to open--when she thinks of what will be required of Harold Forscythe's second wife. In "The Treasure of Far Island, "Douglass Burnham quotes from the story of Bluebeard when his mother forbids him to open the refrigerator.
