The Last Unicorn
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • My friend loved the book
  • Timeless Story
  • the last unnniiiicccooorrrnnnn!!!! I'M ALIIIIIIIIVEEEEE!!!!
  • My favorite fantasy novel of all time.
  • Pretty good for a fairy tale
The Last Unicorn
Peter S. Beagle
Manufacturer: Roc Trade
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0451450523

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The Last Unicorn is one of the true classics of fantasy, ranking with Tolkien's The Hobbit, Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Beagle writes a shimmering prose-poetry, the voice of fairy tales and childhood:

The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.

The unicorn discovers that she is the last unicorn in the world, and sets off to find the others. She meets Schmendrick the Magician--whose magic seldom works, and never as he intended--when he rescues her from Mommy Fortuna's Midnight Carnival, where only some of the mythical beasts displayed are illusions. They are joined by Molly Grue, who believes in legends despite her experiences with a Robin Hood wannabe and his unmerry men. Ahead wait King Haggard and his Red Bull, who banished unicorns from the land.

This is a book no fantasy reader should miss; Beagle argues brilliantly the need for magic in our lives and the folly of forgetting to dream. --Nona Vero

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars My friend loved the book.......2007-10-05

I got this book as a birthday gift to my friend that doesn't so much like Sci-Fi stuff. She loved it. She has a thing for unicorns and everything that she's made up about unicorns has been mentioned in the book. It's a good book.

5 out of 5 stars Timeless Story.......2007-09-13

This has been my favorite book since I was a small child. Lovely cover on this edition.

5 out of 5 stars the last unnniiiicccooorrrnnnn!!!! I'M ALIIIIIIIIVEEEEE!!!!.......2007-09-06

while I have not read this amazing work of fiction, i have seen the movie! and let me say....WOW!
this compelling drama is about a young unicorn coming to terms about her magic pals, who in the words of the eccentric butterfly (has anybody here seen Kelly?? Red rover red rover send Charlie on over!!) "passed down the old roads long ago, and the Red Bull ran close behind him and covered their footprints." This journey takes us through the mind of a troubled young mythic beast who goes through a wide range of emotions including love, curiosity, loss and ......REGRET!!!! After crossing paths with a befuddled young magician, Schmendrick, she starts her journey to recover the lost unicorns and solve the mystery of the Red Bull! Now I don't want to give away the ending, so you just go buy that book/movie and read/watch it!!!
I'm serious. I was genuinely touched by this book/movie and hope that it will change your life as it has changed mine.
Thank you for your time.
P.S. Now that I'M A WOMAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN!!
and I'm a UNIIICORRRNNN!!!
(man is she confused).

5 out of 5 stars My favorite fantasy novel of all time. .......2007-09-02

I have read a lot of novels over the years, most of them fantasy and science fiction. And this is one of the few than I keep coming back to again and again. I reccomend it to anyone I know, regardless of if they read fantasy or not.

And I reccomend it to you. Try this book, you will not be dissapointed.

5 out of 5 stars Pretty good for a fairy tale.......2007-08-28

Saw the cartoon as a child but just recently read the book. It's fun and entertaining, and a little tongue-in-cheek, but not ridiculously so. I wish Beagle had written more over the years, he's definitely got talent. Highly recommended!
The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Facinating
  • So thankful for the opportunity to see this version.
The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version
Peter S. Beagle
Manufacturer: Subterranean Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1596060832
Release Date: 2007-01-10

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Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn has sold at least six million copies around the world since it was published in 1968, and tens of millions of viewers have delighted in the animated film version (for which Peter also wrote the screenplay). But none of the fans of this amazing work have ever known the full story of how The Last Unicorn came to be. In 1962, the 23 year-old Beagle was at a career crossroads. His fantasy novel A Fine and Private Place had been released to great critical acclaim in 1960, but his mainstream second book had been flatly rejected by his publisher. What Peter wrote next was an 80-page fragment about a unicorn, the last of her kind, lost in the modern world of superhighways and Kodak cameras, with only a banished demon from Hell for a traveling companion. This first take on the beloved classic -- so much the same, so very different -- is now available to readers for the first time, with an introduction and commentary by the author.

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5 out of 5 stars Facinating.......2007-06-12

I've loved The Last Unicorn for years, and love so much of Peter S. Beagle's writing. So it was really facinating to read the first version of his novel.

A few pieces are very much the same as the book I've come to know and love, but the vast majority of this first draft is entirely different. Schmendric and Mommy Fortuna's circus are gone, as is any mention of Haggard and the Red Bull. In their place are different characters, and it's obvious that Beagle was taking the story in an entirely different direction....

If you haven't read the Last Unicorn, you should. Go read that instead of this version. But if you've already read that, and want to see where it started, I highly reccomend this book.

5 out of 5 stars So thankful for the opportunity to see this version........2007-06-08

Have read The Last Unicorn at least 8 times, each time loving it more. Mr. Beagle is in my Top FIVE of favorite authors, so this first rendering of The Last Unicorn is fascinating to see and compare to the finished work. I am treating this book as a precious collectible of a supreme story-teller and incredible mind. Thank you, Mr. Beagle. And thanks to your wife for wanting to know how the story ended!!! We are in her debt!
The Andorians: Among the Clans (Star Trek: the Original Series)
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • At last! A "semi-official" history of Andorians
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Manufacturer: Unicorn Publishing House
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Binding: Paperback

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3 out of 5 stars At last! A "semi-official" history of Andorians.......2000-04-21

Last Unicorn Games' exciting book,"The Andorians: Amongthe Clans" (the actual title of what Amazon was calling "TheAndorians: Setting Book") is a support manual for use in LUG's series of Star Trek roleplaying games. This one is written by S. John Ross, Steven S. Long and Adam Dickstein.

Finally, we have a "real" book about Andorians. Sadly, for copyright reasons, LUG was not permitted to incorporate ANY of Trek fandom's Andorian "lore". Because none of the various Star Trek TV series, or movies, have given us much in the way of canonical information about the blue-skinned, antennaed aliens called Andorians, it had been left to fandom to fill in the blanks through fanzines. This manual actually debunks such non-canonical works as mythology.

This book offers a quite different, but quite intriguing, background for the Andorians. Three sub-races of Andorians are identified: the predominant Thalassan, with high, knobby antennae (as seen in the original Trek); the Talish (of ST:TMP), who have forward, tendril-like antennae; and the Bish'ee (of TNG), who have diminishing antennae standing straight out from their head.

LUG's thoughtful and richly detailed material is a great source for introducing these warriors into Trek roleplays.
Narrator's Toolkit: Player Aid (Star Trek: the Original Series)
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This is a must have if you want to run a campaign in the DS9 portion of the terrific game by Unicorn. It contains a gamemaster screen with tables for weapons, movement, maneuvers and more. It also contains a book which helps to develop a good story line with excellant background info on Bajorians, Cardies, and Ferengi. If you don't have it...get it. I love mine.
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    The Last Unicorn
    Peter S. Beagle
    Manufacturer: Ballatine Books
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Mass Market Paperback
    ASIN: 0345254848

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    Mass market paperback. "...A story of a quest, the search by the unicorn--immortal, infinitely beautiful--for her lost fellows. She is assisted in her mission by Schmendrick, the Magician, a kind of poor man's Merlin whose devotion to the exquisite creature he follows is exceed only by his mediocrity in magic. A third traveler, fiercely loyal Molly Grue, tries to bring some semblance of order and practicality into the lives of her two mad charges in this wonderfully imaginative and touching tale."
    The First Line: Starfleet Intelligence Manual (Stra Trek, the Next Generation)
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    4 out of 5 stars Secrets revealed.......2001-02-06

    This book offers an in depth look at the life of an SFI character. It offers enough information for an entire intelligence campaign to be played. The book breaks SFI into two branches: Administration and Operations. Both branches are explained well. The structure of the Mission Team is given, and a section describing what a SFI officers does is included. The technology section offers many "James Bond" type toys. Intelligence Dossiers are given for many spies throughout the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, these descriptions are in depth and offer the narrator a wealth of ready to go NPC's. More traits and skills are offered, but few templates and no species templates. I was dissapointed that there were no complete adventures offered, but there are enough adventure seeds for the narrator to develop into full blown adventures and enough intelligence "hot spots" are offered in the "Locations" chapter to inspire the narrator's imagination. I was hoping for more information on Section 31, and I found the sections on the Obsidian Order and Tal Shiar to be somewhat lacking. This book receives a common complaint about the LUG products: black and white art work. It isn't bad artwork, but compared to the stills found in the core rulebooks and The Price of Freedom, it is lacking. Overall, a good solid book.

    4 out of 5 stars Top Secret !!.......1999-06-15

    This book contains all the information you ever wanted to know about Starfleet Intelligence, and even discusses the infamous Section 31 briefly. Included in the back of the book are several ideas of Campaigns that might be run using Starfleet Intelligence characters, though there are no complete campaigns within the book. The primary drawbacks to this supplement are the same failings that Last Unicorn's "A Fragile Peace: The Neutral Zone Campaign" possessed, this book too is printed in black and white, and contains little by way of new character overlays or species templates. Although there are examples of characters who are members of the Cardassian Obsidian Order, and the Romulan Tal Shiar, it might have been helpful to have actual Species Templates for these kinds of characters included in the sourcebook.
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    4 out of 5 stars Great begning, but short on the follow thru........2002-05-26

    If you have played RPG's for some time, or have not.You will enjoy TNG. I recomend this RPG. It deals more on the playing the race and Charictor than the technolgy. knowing the show is not nessary, just a idea of a race, attach a emotion to it, and go. All you need is the Core book to play. The Core Book gives you all you need for running the game, playing, monsters, people, races, and Ship to ship combat. One 6 sided die needed. If you remenber the old Star trek bord game of ship to ship combat, it has the set up for it as well. Now about the follow thru: LUG (last Unicorn Games) the Authors of this line, have (And I cant find it.) or have not made good on contining the line. such as "UFP Ships of the line #1 Miniature Boxed set","Planets of the UFP" and many adventures.
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    4 out of 5 stars With this book, you give fun to characters and players.......2000-06-08

    If you have enough with the always same adventures in Star Trek, here you can put them in Middle Age, or why not in Sherwood... Only your imagination can stop you...
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      4 out of 5 stars Here Come the Romulans!.......2000-07-03

      Romulans are my favorite villians, I'm still waiting for a movie that places them center stage. Naturally, when I decided to run an ST game, I wanted to have lots of Romulans. This book includes information about the Romulan Neutral Zone (some of which has all ready appeared in the Next Generation core rule book); however, if you are looking for new information on Romulans, you will not find it here. That is not the intention of the book.

      The intention of the book is to offer four adventures featuring Romulans which can be played individually or as a series. I don't want to give away any details of the episodes themselves, but I will say that they involve traditional romulan sneakiness. Each adventure is well written and includes troubleshooting sections that give narrator's "what-if" solutions. A Narrator will also find stats and descriptions of NPC's througout the Neutral Zone.

      The only thing which keeps me from giving this book five stars is the cheaply done artwork. It really does the rest of the book a disservice.

      5 out of 5 stars Great RPG Tool.......1999-06-22

      I thought this book was great. It gives great detail on how to start and run a Nuetral Zone campaign. Also keep in mind that his is only book one in an ongoing series. For those of you who are looking to place the Romulans at the forefront of villainy, this is the book for you!

      2 out of 5 stars Short on Information, but tells a good story.......1999-04-17

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      4 out of 5 stars A very intriguing and engaging story. .......2005-08-29

      Mysteries tend to give me nightmares so I usually avoid reading them, but as a brown-eyed girl myself who loves the oldie song of the same name, I was drawn to this title. I loved the chemistry between Leah and Ethan. The relationships each had with Tom (Ethan's father) and Holly (Ethan's daughter) were very well-developed. The rural New England winter setting was enchantingly described too. The murder-mystery often was more gory and graphically detailed than I wanted to read, but the cunning way they solved the crime, and the surprising twist at the end, was very satisfying.

      5 out of 5 stars Tender Romance With A Hint Of Suspense,.......2004-07-06

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      4 out of 5 stars Surprises Surprises.......2003-07-04

      I had this book for 2 years before I read it, and now I wonder why I waited. While the ending was somewhat predictable, Ms. Stewart kept throwing in lots of little details that surprised me, even to the end.

      4 out of 5 stars A good romantic suspense..............2003-01-22

      This is my first Mariah Stewart book and I really enjoyed it. It was somewhat slow in the beginning, but it definitley got better toward the middle and I couldn't put it down until I finished it. I was also very satsified with the ending.

      Leah McDevitt is a Feature Editor for Trends, which is a magazine based in NY. Upon returning home from working on an article abroad she finds a letter from a serial killer who is being exectued, stating that he knows where to find her sister Melissa who has been missing for seven years. Leah makes a deal with him, but before she finds out where her sister is, he dies in prison. Dejected and grieving all over again, Leah turns to the one person who may be able to help...

      Ethan Sanger wrote the book on Raymond Lambert, dubbed The Vagrabond Killer. When Leah first comes to Ethan and asks to see his notes for the book, he wants to turn her down. However he finds that he can't. He knows what it's like to have a loved one missing and not know where to look. Together Leah and Ethan embark on a journey to find out what happened to Melissa.

      This book has just the right amount of romance and suspense. The secondary characters are great and I can't wait to read Genna and Michael's story next.

      It's defintley worth the time to read this book!
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      • Love Jennifer Cruisie? Meet Viginia Swift!
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      Release Date: 2001-04-03

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      The Prodigal Daughter is coming home. Bring on the fatted calf--or at the very least an order of onion rings and a stiff shot of Kentucky bourbon. Sally Alder, once the hard-living, hard-drinking, better-than-average singing star of the Laramie, Wyoming, country-and-western bar scene is back in her hometown for the first time in 17 years. And to the amazement (and horror) of many, she's back as a respected scholar and holder of the Dunwoodie Distinguished Chair in American Women's History at the University of Wyoming. It's a career move that doesn't sit well with many of her new colleagues, as police chief Dickie Langham muses: "He decided that she would be making more than enough to infuriate the average chronically underpaid Wyoming history professor.... How much worse that Sally was somebody who had once put herself through a master's program in history by singing songs like 'Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mothers.'"

      Sally has been hired, in part, to write the biography of Margaret Dunwoodie, a well-known frontier poet whose work is troubling, seductive, and hilarious (Sally's favorite poem is "Still Life of Fascists with Herefords"). As Sally makes her way slowly through a lifetime's worth of papers, poems, letters, and shopping lists, she finds her attention drifting more toward the present than the past; how to reposition herself in Laramie society, how to negotiate a newly explosive courtship with former lover Hawk Green--these seem far more pressing than Dunwoodie's story. Brown-Eyed Girl is no fast-paced thriller; Swift is content to let her story drift as peacefully as spring snow moving across the plains.

      For that reason, the brusque demands of plot, action, and mystery seem to strike a foreign chord upon their introduction. When a distant relative of the poet, disgruntled at having been denied what he considers his rightful inheritance, joins forces with reactionary millionaire Teton County rancher Elroy Foote to menace Sally and steal a fortune they are convinced is hidden among the papers, the novel teeters precariously on the verge of trying to become something it isn't. But Swift wisely retreats from overinvesting in a plot that is, it must be said, too weak to support itself. She chooses instead to treat Foote and his henchmen with a sly sense of the absurd: "Most of the Unknown Soldiers were intellectually challenged good ol' boys and mentally rearranged Vietnam vets who thought for various reasons (too many wilderness areas, too many missile silos, the advent of bad cappuccino at the local Diamond Shamrock) that foreigners and the federal government were engaged in a secret plot to take over Wyoming."

      Though the capital-M Mystery aspect of Brown-Eyed Girl is perhaps more a distraction than an attraction, the little mysteries of the human personality--the foibles of friends, lovers, and enemies--more than make up for its intrusion. Swift's talent for person and place will easily woo you away from plot. --Kelly Flynn

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      Sally Alder thought she'd left Laramie and outgrown her hard-drinking, guitar playing, hell-raising post for good. After all, this former singer known as Mustang Sally has become a respected history professor. What's more, she's been named to a richly endowed position at the University of Wyoming. But this plum job lands her back in Laramie -- secretly researching the life of one of the town's most famous yet little-known citizens, the late Meg Dunwoodie.

      Of course, everyone knows Sally's poking through old Meg's papers, and a lot of people think that buried among them is a treasure map that could leadto a fortune. Most of Laramie is determined to find it, including a bunch of clueless burglars, a curious sheriff, gossipy friends, and greedy faculty colleagues. And, as if that isn't enough to distract Sally, sexy Hawk Green is back to rekindle the romance she thought was gone forever.

      As she delves into Meg's romantic past, Sally discovers the forces of good and evil in Laramie are beginning to align in a mysterious way. And if she doesn't learn from the post quickly enough, she may be doomed to repeat deadly mistakes.

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars Love Jennifer Cruisie? Meet Viginia Swift!.......2001-07-29

      Swift has a witty, intelligent book here full of good laughs and very nice writing. The mystery is intriguing, the relationships real and the characters absorbing. Mustang Sally reminds me of myself, and friends, who have finally grown older but not totally "up" (to paraphrase Jimmy Buffett); wiser and more experienced but not dead to adventure and passion yet! If you like Jennifer Cruisie and Suzann Ledbetter, this book will appeal to you.

      4 out of 5 stars fun read.......2001-05-07

      This book is a light cross between mystery and romance that does not take itself too seriously and laughs at everything. i really enjoyed it, primarily because of the writing style and succession of implausible but entertaining events.

      5 out of 5 stars Best of Genre.......2001-01-09

      In this novel, the central character Sally Alder has traded in the edgy existence of a hard-living, cattle-country bar singer for a respectable career as a history professor. However, the bequest of a wealthy poetess gives Sally an opportunity to revisit the scene (and perhaps the meaning) of her prior life.

      The plot careens in several directions. First, Sally renews a relationship with a former boyfriend, whose love-making now combines the mature sophistication of middle age with the stamina of an adolescent. (Perhaps this is plausible. I can only testify to the possibility of the opposite mixture.)

      Next, Sally unravels the mysterious background of the poetess. Finally, she survives the self-thwarting schemes of a right-wing militia and a selfish set of sexist professors.

      I can curl up with writing like this (p. 100):

      "People on the high plains got real squirrelly the week before Thanksgiving. They knew there'd be a snowstorm that would shut down the roads relatives would try to travel, strand thousands in the Denver airport en route to turkey dinners and family feuds, generally [mess] up everyone's plans and leave the world so [dang] silent and beautiful into the bargain that you felt guilty for resenting the inconvenience."

      In fact, I can say without hesitation that of all books in the comic-western/mystery-romance/academic-feminist genre, this is the best that I have ever read. But you have to be open to that kind of crazy concoction to enjoy this novel. If you prefer to keep Larry McMurtry, Sara Paretsky, and A.S. Byatt in separate places, then this might not be your cup of tea.

      4 out of 5 stars More Thrills in Laramie than L.A.? You bet!.......2000-11-01

      There may be some first-novel roughness in BROWN-EYED GIRL, but the humor, insights into middle-age (nearly every character is of "a certain age") and friendship, suspense and just plain good-spirited fun more than makes up for it. The novel is only 256 pages, but the author makes use of every word so readers have the wonderful cast of characters, plots and sub-plots and action of a longer book. Read it--and hope Ms. Swift is working on her second book.

      5 out of 5 stars What a romp! BIG fun here........2000-08-25

      Sally Alder, the main character in Virginia Swift's rollicking Brown-Eyed Girl, is a wry, hard-drinking, brilliant and big-hearted woman whose colorful past comes back both to haunt and to bless her. As she makes her way through this romp of a novel, ol' "Mustang Sally" confronts right-wing paramilitary crazies, self-serving academic functionaries, historical mysteries, and her own cheatin' heart. You have to love her. This book was great fun and I read every lilting line of its musical prose without so much as setting it down. We can only hope there is more where this came from.
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