SpokenVerse | Cinderella by Sylvia Plath (read by Tom O'Bedlam) @SpokenVerse | Uploaded November 2012 | Updated October 2024, 30 minutes ago.
It's blacker than Disney's version. To give you a clue, it's about feeling alienated.

Here's the Grimm version of Cinderella.
classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/grimm/bl-grimm-cinderella.htm

I always wondered about the golden slipper fitting business when I was a kid. Why didn't she just show him the other slipper?

The first painting was by Gustave Doré (1832--1883)

The Cinderella tiles were designed by Edward Burne-Jones and painted by Lucy Faulkner in 1862. There are ten of them. You can buy them here:
williammorristile.com/morris_cinderella_tile.html

The prince leans to the girl in scarlet heels,
Her green eyes slant, hair flaring in a fan
Of silver as the rondo slows; now reels
Begin on tilted violins to span

The whole revolving tall glass palace hall
Where guests slide gliding into light like wine;
Rose candles flicker on the lilac wall
Reflecting in a million flagons' shine,

And glided couples all in whirling trance
Follow holiday revel begun long since,
Until near twelve the strange girl all at once
Guilt-stricken halts, pales, clings to the prince

As amid the hectic music and cocktail talk
She hears the caustic ticking of the clock.