Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
"Beauty and the Beast" by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont is a fairy tale published in 1756. When a merchant plucks a rose from an enchanted castle, he faces death at the hands of a hideous Beast—unless one of his daughters takes his place. Beauty volunteers to save her father and enters a world of luxury and mystery, where a monstrous host asks nightly for her companionship while she dreams of a handsome
prisoner. Her choice will determine both their fates. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Leprince de Beaumont, Jeanne-Marie, 1711-1780 |
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| Title | Beauty and the Beast |
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Project Gutenberg has several editions of this eBook: #19967 (An illustrated HTML file) #23311 (An illustrated HTML file) #7074 (A Plain HTML file) |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast |
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Produced by Kim Pickett and The Hockliffe Project. HTML version by Al Haines. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 63.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Fairy tales |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 7074 |
| Release Date | Dec 1, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Aug 8, 2019 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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