false 29127 35 <I>The Last Unicorn</I> is one of the true classics of fantasy, ranking with Tolkien's <I>The Hobbit</I>, Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy, and Lewis Carroll's <I>Alice in Wonderland</I>. Beagle writes a shimmering prose-poetry, the voice of fairy tales and childhood:<p> <blockquote>The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.</blockquote><p> The unicorn discovers that she is the last unicorn in the world, and sets off to find the others. She meets Schmendrick the Magician--whose magic seldom works, and never as he intended--when he rescues her from Mommy Fortuna's Midnight Carnival, where only some of the mythical beasts displayed are illusions. They are joined by Molly Grue, who believes in legends despite her experiences with a Robin Hood wannabe and his unmerry men. Ahead wait King Haggard and his Red Bull, who banished unicorns from the land.<p> This is a book no fantasy reader should miss; Beagle argues brilliantly the need for magic in our lives and the folly of forgetting to dream. <I>--Nona Vero</I> 902304 book 1968 The Last Unicorn total:3930|5:1840|4:1272|3:645|2:142|1:31| 3930 16538 5481 450 5 7 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sat May 19 14:28:03 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 16 11:58:44 -0700 2007

The unicorn was gray and still. "There is magic on me," she said. "Why did you not tell me?"

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The story is a unicorn who lives with no cares, existing in her own vain world with no fear of death a...more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Aug 14 23:59:14 -0700 2007 Thu May 22 13:28:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 06:29:42 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 18:26:16 -0700 2009
Beagle has gentle fun with this fairy-tale quest, winking and teasing his readers with soft ironies intermixed with a lullaby of a story.

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Pearl S. Beagle takes the cliches of cl...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 18:11:10 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 18:11:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 23 10:40:44 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 10:41:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 09:51:44 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 29 09:56:35 -0700 2009 1 The Last Unicorn is quite possibly the most beautiful book ever written. The story it tells is of a quest undertaken by the last unicorn, Molly Grue, and Schmendrik the Magician to save the unicorns from the Red Bull of King Haggard. What appears at first glance to be a traditional fantasy tale wi...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 19:49:57 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 20:43:44 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Sep 05 12:20:45 -0700 2007 Sat Jan 10 21:00:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 27 16:21:13 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 11:25:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 12:17:04 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 17:28:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 10:33:22 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 09:49:22 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 25 12:53:05 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 13:08:12 -0700 2009
I really wanted to love this book. I have always been fascinated by unicorns since I was a little girl and to have been left feeling so deflated after reading this beloved classic was puzzling to say the least.

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