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Beauty And The Beast Author: MARIA TATAR

ISBN: 9780143111696 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 240 Published: 7 March 2017 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.5 x 12.9 x 1.7 Description: One of our most beloved and elemental fairy tales, in versions from across the centuries and around the world-published to coincide with Disney's live-action 3D musical film starring Emma Watson, Ian McKellen, Ewan McGregor, Audra McDonald, Kevin Kline, Stanley Tucci, and Emma Thompson   Perhaps no fairy tale is as widely known as "Beauty and the Beast"-and perhaps no fairy tale exists in as many variations. To some, "Beauty and the Beast" is a love story, demonstrating the transformative power of compassion; to others, it is a cautionary tale, helping sort out sexual politics, marital roles, and feelings of ostracism. Nearly every culture tells the story in one fashion or another-such cultural phenomena as The Fault in Our Stars and Me Before You are recent examples-and it is impossible to find one version that laid the foundation for the rest. From Cupid and Psyche to India's Snake Bride to South Africa's "Story of Five Heads," the partnering of beasts and beauties, of humans and animals in all their variety-cats, dogs, frogs, goats, lizards, bears, tortoises, monkeys, cranes, warthogs-has begu...

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