![]() ![]() ![]() A kind of upside-down Merlin, Schmendrick is looking for something for himself too, his life perhaps. Early on, she is joined by Schmendrick the Magician - a name pointing to the low comedy that surprisingly (though also traditionally) coexists here with terror, pathos, tenderness, paradox, and wit, and frequent passages where the prose bursts into song and into poetry itself. True to tradition, _The Last Unicorn_ is the story of a quest, the search by the unicorn -immortal, infinitely beautiful - for her lost fellows. armed already with the wryness of experience but brave enough still to venture where many of his elders might well fear to tread." In his second novel this inventive, original writer - still under thirty - ventures still further, into the literally fantastic, literally fabulous world of fairy tale, myth, dream, nightmare. "A most unusual novel," Virgilia Peterson said in her review, "By a young man who seems to be a genuine nonconformist. Beagle Flyleaf: _A Fine and Private Place_, Peater Beagle's first book, was written before he was twenty. ![]()
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