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Loading... The Last Unicorn The Lost Journeyby Peter S. Beagle
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  Kalira | May 13, 2024 |   ritaer | May 25, 2019 | It's quite remarkable to read. You can absolutely see the origins of what the story will eventually become though the original draft is quite different from the end product. It's a story about the loss of magic because the modern world is shoving it out. There really isn't much of a plot being more of an exploration of ideas. It also shows the power of letting an idea develop and change over time before it comes the final product. (  ) Narilka | Apr 25, 2019 | no reviews | add a review
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"Peter S. Beagle first imagined his beloved heroine when he was twenty-three, half a decade before she sprang into the world. Now the Last Unicorn's fantastical origins are recaptured in this beautifully illustrated, commemorative hardcover edition, which includes Beagle's revisited, wry musings upon his early writing career. In this appealingly familiar yet wonderfully strange adventure, a brave unicorn leaves her solitary life behind, determined to discover if she is the last of her kind. She is forewarned by a forlorn dragon and befuddled by a chatty butterfly; her traveling companion is an exiled demon with a split personality and a penchant for philosophy. Somewhere between mythology, modernity, and magic, the last unicorn is finding her world irrevocably transformed." -- No library descriptions found. |
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I also didn't expect it to be utterly unfinished - not in the sense of polish but in that the story just stops abruptly in the middle. (The note from the author at the end talking about the history of this story explains that he wrote himself into a corner/got stuck there.) (