The Naiads * Beauty and the Beast Tapa blanda - 2017

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Encino: Black Coat Press, 2017. Trade paperback, New,. Nathalie Lial. Encino: Black Coat Press:, 2017. Trade paperback, New, 384 pp. Cover artwork by: Nathalie Lial "The Beauty and the Beast by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve was first published in 1740 and later abridged and rewritten by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in a better-known version in 1743.The main interests of Mme de Villeneuve's story are two sections, one in which the Beast explains how he came to be transformed and why it was forced to act as he did in regard to the Beauty; and the other in which the fay who contrived his liberation from his curse explains how and for what motives an evil rival placed her in that elaborate necessity. This original account of the organization and politics of the world of Faerie is of considerable interest, as well as completing the explanatory schema of the enigmatic fundamental tale. The Naiads, published 100 years after Mme de Villeneuve's death, is one of the… Leer más

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