Histoires ou contes du temps passé (in English: Stories or Fairy Tales from Bygone Eras)[1] subtitle: Les Contes de ma Mère l'Oye (Tales of Mother Goose) is a collection of eight literary fairy tales written by Charles Perrault and published by Barbin in Paris in January 1697.[1] The book's contents include "Sleeping Beauty", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Bluebeard", "The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots", "Diamonds and Toads", "Cinderella", "Riquet with the Tuft", and "Hop o' My Thumb". The book met with instant success and has remained popular. Histoires was first translated into English by Robert Samber as Histories or Tales of Times Past and published in London in 1729. The book is often credited with launching the Mother Goose legend in the English-speaking world.[2]