Último Unicornio / The Last Unicorn - by Peter S Beagle (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

El unicornio vivía en un bosque de lilas y vivía completamente solo... ...así que se aventuró a salir de la seguridad del bosque encantado en busca de otros de su especie. Acompañado en el camino por el torpe mago Schmendrick y la indomable Molly Grue, el unicornio aprende todo sobre las alegrías y las penas de la vida y el amor antes de encontrarse con su destino en el castillo de un monarca abatido... y enfrentarse a la criatura que llevaría a su especie a la extinción...

The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone... ...so she ventured out from the safety of the enchanted forest on a quest for others of her kind. Joined along the way by the bumbling magician Schmendrick and the indomitable Molly Grue, the unicorn learns all about the joys and sorrows of life and love before meeting her destiny in the castle of a despondent monarch--and confronting the creature that would drive her kind to extinction....

About the Author

Peter S. Beagle nació en 1939 y se crió en el Bronx, donde creció rodeado de arte y educación: sus padres eran profesores, tres de sus tíos eran pintores de galerías de renombre mundial y su abuelo inmigrante era un respetado escritor, en hebreo, de ficción judía y cuentos populares. Hoy, el célebre autor y guionista Peter Beagle ha recibido los prestigiosos premios Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Mythopoeic y World Fantasy, y es un Gran Maestro en Memoria de Damon Knight 2018 de Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, entre muchos otros logros literarios.
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Peter S. Beagle was born in 1939 and raised in the Bronx, where he grew up surrounded by the arts and education: both his parents were teachers, three of his uncles were world-renowned gallery painters, and his immigrant grandfather was a respected writer, in Hebrew, of Jewish fiction and folktales. Today, noted author and screenwriter Peter Beagle is a recipient of the prestigious Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Mythopoeic, and World Fantasy Awards, and he is a Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America 2018 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master, among many other literary achievements. He has given generations of readers the magic of unicorns, haunted cemeteries, lascivious trees and disgruntled gods. A prolific author, his best-known work is The Last Unicorn, a fantasy novel, which Locus Magazine subscribers voted the number five "All-Time Best Fantasy Novel" in 1987. Fellow Hugo and Nebula-award-winning author Neil Gaiman has described Beagle's A Fine and Private Place as his "I-wish-I'd-written-that-first" novel. In addition to writing novels, short stories, poems, and songs, Peter S. Beagle is also known for his work on screen, including the screenplay he co-wrote for the 1978 Ralph Bakshi-animated version of The Lord of the Rings. He also wrote the teleplay for "Sarek", one of the most critically-acclaimed and popular episodes of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.