the first last unicorn and other beginnings peter s beagle

“Werewolves, Unicorns, the Dreadful Specter of Death at a Ball-you may think you’ve read these stories before. “…A nicely designed collection of Peter Beagle’s best short work.” A story like ‘The Naga’ is worthy of inclusion in the Arabian Nights.” Without Beagle’s early example we’d have no Blaylock or Powers…. “…This collection proves just how essential Beagle is to modern fantasy. The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: 11th Annual Collection

Lawrence in Taos’is worth the price of the book.” “…Mixes classic tales with new gems, early stories, and various nonfiction. The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche contains two of Beagle’s popular unicorn stories, “Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros” and “Julie’s Unicorn,” as well as “Lila the Werewolf” (anthologized in the Oxford Book of Fantasy) and a tribute to J. It reached an audience far beyond the market for fantasy books, tying in with an emerging counter-culture and selling hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of copies. The Last Unicorn, Beagle’s most beloved novel, was an underground best-seller in the late 1960s and 1970s and is still in print and enchanting new readers today. Widely available for the first time and with a new preface by the author, this delightful book contains seven short stories and three essays by one of the most popular authors in the history of the fantasy field. Beagle’s The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances celebrates the beginning of Beagle’s extraordinary career as a fantasist. The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances by Peter S.

The first last unicorn and other beginnings peter s beagle