Fans will want to witness the evolution into the original.” This commemorative hardcover edition is the first draft of what would eventually become Beagle’s best-known work. “Fifty years ago, the first edition of The Last Unicorn was published the legend of a unicorn searching for her kind has filled readers’ hearts for decades. Praise for The Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey Somewhere between mythology, modernity, and magic, the Last Unicorn has found herself on the road less traveled by. She is forewarned by a forlorn dragon and befuddled by a chatty butterfly her unfamiliar traveling companion will be an exiled demon with a split personality and a penchant for philosophy.

In this wonderfully strange adventure, a brave unicorn leaves her solitary life behind, determined to discover if she is the last of her kind. Here you will discover the eighty-five-page genesis of Beagle’s masterpiece, his own wry musings upon his early career, charming original illustrations, and tributes from modern fantasy legends Patrick Rothfuss and Carrie Vaughn. Now the Last Unicorn’s fantastical origins are recaptured in this lovely commemorative hardcover. Beagle first imagined his beloved heroine when he was twenty-three, half a decade before she sprang into the world. Special Commemorative Edition celebrating the 50th Anniversary of The Last Unicorn (Nov.The Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey by Peter S. In elegant yet simple prose Beagle illuminates the shifting relationships among the various major and minor players (including an irascible shape-changing fox) who people this affecting tale. When these blighted souls converge on the inn, life there is forever changed as powerful forces wage ungodly battle for possession of the magician's soul. The third, Lukassa, is a village girl whom Lal resurrected after she drowned and whose childhood love, Tikat, pursues the three, intent on regaining her.

Two of the women-Lal, a fabled adventurer, and Nyateneri-are searching for the powerful magician who was once their mentor and who has summoned the women to save him from destruction and worse at the hands of his most powerful pupil, Arshadin. When three strange women (one black, one brown, one white) arrive at a wayside inn called The Gaff and Slasher, the innkeeper Karsh takes them in much against his better judgment. In a multifaceted fantasy told from various points of view, Beagle ( The Last Unicorn ) plumbs the nature of life, death and love.

Summerlong by Peter S. Beagle