Beauty and the Beast: Beauty and the Beast A TALE FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT OF JUVENILE READERS [Paperback]

Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (Author), Walter Crane (Illustrator)

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Publication Date: February 17, 2010

Beauty and the Beast By Marie Le Prince de Beaumont BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. A TALE FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT OF JUVENILE READERS. With Illustrations by Crane, Walter. Beauty and the Beast. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1874.

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Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont was born in Rouen and died in 1780. Her first marriage, in 1743, was annulled after two years. In 1746 she left France to become a governess in London. She was the author of Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic French Fairy Tales. After a successful publishing career in England, she remarried, bore many children, and left England to live the rest of her life in Savoy.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 24 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace (February 17, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1450598986
• ISBN-13: 978-1450598989
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.3 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,056,992 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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95 of 101 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The classic version, December 18, 2009

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This review is from: Beauty and the Beast (Kindle Edition)

This is the classic version of _Beauty and the Beast_, the one that Disney based the film on. The movie was a surprisingly close adaptation, and fans of the movie will recognize many elements here (such as Beauty's love of reading), though other elements are markedly different (here, Beauty's father is a merchant, not an inventor, though still unusually middle-class for a classic fairy tale; Gaston is nonexistent here, a Disney invention).

It is very short, at only 196 kindle locations, and the text is fairly clear of typos.

If you're a fan of this story, there are a host of other classic fairy tales that follow the same basic model, all of which should be available for free online. Beaumont's version was an adaptation of a longer original version by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. If you're interested in reading other fairy tales with similar if slightly extended plotlines, try looking for "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" or "The Black Bull of Norroway." If you want to get really classical, look up the story of Cupid and Psyche in Apuleius' "The Golden Ass."

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Swept Away - If Only for A Moment!, January 23, 2010

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This review is from: Beauty and the Beast (Kindle Edition)

This book brought a smile to my face. It is such a good, sweet story. I discovered how well the screenwrtiers followed the original story, yet along with the imagineers at Disne, introduced new characters that fit right in It made me want see the animated film again. It is short and would make a great bedtime story for your kids or for yourself. Definitely worth the read.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An eightenth century morality tale, October 13, 2010

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This review is from: Beauty and the Beast (Forgotten Books) (Paperback)

This is an eighteenth century morality tale that is still relevant today. It teaches children to strive to be kind and not judge people because they are clever or beautiful.

A rich man has three daughters and three sons. The youngest daughter is so beautiful that people call her Beauty. She also has beautiful character, which her sisters lack. When their father looses all his money, Beauty works hard to help her father, but her sisters, accustomed to luxury, do not work; they prefer to sleep late.

One day their father is lost in the woods and discovers a palace. When he picks a rose from the garden, an ugly beast appears and tells him that he must die because he ruined his garden, unless he brings his child to take his place. When Beauty hears what happened she insists on being his substitute.

The beast treats Beauty very well and offers to marry her. She refuses at first, but then overcome by his kindness, she consents. The beast then becomes a handsome prince. He explains that he was turned into a beast and had to remain so until a beautiful virgin agrees to marry him. The couple returns to the prince's kingdom and live happily ever after. The sisters also married, one to a witty man who constantly belittled her with his wit, and the other to a very handsome man who spend all of his time admiring himself.