The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
ROC, Penguin, New York, 2008
The Last Unicorn is a wonder. If you love fantasy, if you love magic, read this part. Written 40 years ago, it is a classic that has stood the test of time.
A unicorn lives in a wood all alone. Hearing a colloquy between two hunters she becomes curious and decides to search during the term of others of her kind. This quest leads to meetings with villains, monsters and every unlikely magician named Schmendrick. There are battles and losses, witches and kings. The singly way to give you a taste of this morsal is to put to hire you read.
Sometimes she thought if men no longer know the sort of they are looking at, there may well be unicorns in the terraqueous globe yet, unknown and glad of it. But she knew beyond as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but hope and vanity that men had changed, and the world with them, because the unicorns were gone. Yet she went on lengthwise the hard road, although each day she wished a little greater degree that she had not left her forest. From page 11.
So they fled athwart the night together, step by step, the tall man in cimmerian and the horned white beast. The magician crept as close to the unicorn’s apply the match to as he dared, for beyond it moved hungry shadows, the shadows of the sounds the marsh-harrier made as she destroyed the little there was to destroy of the Midnight Carnival…From page 54.
And far away on the other side of the unicorn, Schmendrick the enchanter stalked in silence. His black cloak was sprouting holes, coming undone, and thus was he. The rain that renewed Molly did not fall attached him, and he seemed every more parched and deserted, like the real estate itself. The unicorn could not heal him. A touch of her horn could have brought him back from death, but over despair she had no power, nor magic that had come and gone. from page 106.
Beagle is ~y accomplished story-teller. Using clear crystal-like language he brings this classic count to life. The Last Unicorn is filled with scenes of refined beauty, terror and very human foibles. It is often laugh confused loud funny. It is a book I would recommend to anyone self-seeking in the genre, fans and new comers alike.
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