Аннотация
Beauty
Robin McKinley
1978
ISBN: 0-671-70316-1
“Good evening, Beauty,” said a great harsh voice.
He straightened himself slowly, but I shrank back. He must have been seven feet tall at full height, with proportionate breadth of shoulder and chest, like the great black bears of the north woods. With a sigh as deep as a storm wind, he raised the candelabrum from the table. It lit as he brought it to shoulder level, and I was staring suddenly into his face. “Oh no,” I cried. When I heard him take a step toward me, I leaped back in alarm.
“You have nothing to fear,” the Beast said, as gently as his harsh voice allowed.
He was still standing, watching me with those eyes. I realized that what made his gaze so awful was that his eyes were human....
“A FULL-FLEDGED FANTASY NOVEL.... I WAS IMMEDIATELY CAPTURED.... BEAUTY IS A WONDERFUL BOOK.”—Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine
To my mother,
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