THE LAST UNICORN (40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION)
Peter S. Beagle

Unsigned, $15
Signed by the author, $25
Personalized, $30

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Wraparound cover art by Rebekah Naomi Cox.
Roc 2008 trade paperback edition. 296 pages.

According to the Locus Poll, The Last Unicorn is the #5 greatest fantasy novel of all time. This new 40th Anniversary release is the best American trade paperback version the book has ever had, and features Peter S. Beagle's personal choice of cover artist, the remarkably talented Rebekah Naomi Cox. It is a beautiful edition that all fans of this book will want to own.

QUOTES FROM REVIEWS

The Last Unicorn is one of the true classics of fantasy, ranking with Tolkien's The Hobbit, Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Beagle writes a shimmering prose-poetry, the voice of fairy tales and childhood:

"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."

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.

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.

          — Amazon.com editorial review

Peter S. Beagle has both the opulence of imagination and the mastery of style....if you're interested in unicorns — and who in his or her sane senses isn't? — this is your book....comes alive and stays alive on the bright intensity of imagination.

          — New York Times

Almost as if it were the last fairy tale, come out of lonely hiding in the forests of childhood, The Last Unicorn is as full of enchantment as any of the favorite tales readers may choose to recall.

          — St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Beagle...has been compared not unreasonably with Lewis Carroll and J.R.R. Tolkien, but he stands squarely and triumphantly on his own feet....The book is rich, not only in comic bits but also in passages of uncommon beauty. Beagle is a true magician with words, a master of prose and a deft practitioner in verse.

          — The Saturday Review

Charm, wit, and stylistic brilliance....This is a novel and a writer that should be read and reread.

          — Chicago News

Mr. Beagle has...an inexhaustible bag of surprises...with overtones of Malory, Merlin, and the Arabian Nights....A writer whose work speaks so eloquently for itself needs no comparisons.

          — Best Sellers

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

          — Ursula K. Le Guin

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