The lost unicorn book7/6/2023 ![]() Ordinarily, Beagle tells us, unicorns are content to be solitary creatures. Our unicorn, who is never named, leaves her forest in search of others of her kind, after overhearing a couple of sorrowful hunters discussing how there are no unicorns - and thus no beauty or magic - left anywhere in the world at all. The Last Unicorn was meta before meta was cool. Beagle frames his story as a fractured fairy tale, rich in self-aware humor. All that makes the book sound like dour and dismal stuff indeed, but it hasn't become one of fantasy's most beloved and enduring classics - in print consistently for forty years and counting - for nothing. ![]() The Last Unicorn is an elegy for a world that has lost its magic, lost its sense of wonder, and whose people are desperate to get it back but so passive in their acceptance of the mundanity of their lives that they can't even see the magic and the beauty that's there in the world around them if only they'd look. ![]()
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