Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (Folktales #1)

Robin McKinley

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Glimpses and kisses [?] · 67 ratings · 256 pages · Published: 14 Nov 1978
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley
"Like all of the other doors I had met in the castle, this one opened at my approach. The room it revealed was a large, warm, and gracious one. On one wall to my left a first was burning in a fireplace; two armchairs were drawn up before it. One chair was empty. In the other a massive shadow sat. I caught a gleam of dark-green velvet on what might have been a knee in the shadowed armchair.

"'Good evening, Beauty,' said a great harsh voice."

A young woman, well educated and honourable, accepts responsibility for her father's act and leaves her family to enter the enchanted world of castle and Beast. The Beast she finds is not the one she imagined, but can she stay with him?

A gifted storyteller embellishes the classic tale, developing a new and very real world of her own in a love story that has all the wonder and magic of the fairy tale.
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    The 'Folktales' series

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    young adult · paranormal · audiobook · glimpses-kisses · fantasy · magic · standalone-first · standalone · historical · high fantasy · contemporary · medieval · length-medium · first-in-series · legends & fairy tales
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