212 pages
English language
Published Sept. 5, 2008
The Last Unicorn is a fantasy novel by American author Peter S. Beagle and published in 1968, by Viking Press in the U.S. and The Bodley Head in the U.K. It follows the tale of a unicorn, who believes she is the last of her kind in the world and undertakes a quest to discover what has happened to the others. It has sold more than five million copies worldwide since its original publication, and has been translated into at least twenty languages (prior to the 2007 edition). In 1987, Locus ranked The Last Unicorn number five among the 33 "All-Time Best Fantasy Novels", based on a poll of subscribers. The 1998 rendition of the poll ranked The Last Unicorn number 18.
This was good, but I was expecting it to be much better.
That being said, I quite enjoyed Beagle's writing style, and his quirky mundane interjections amidst lofty overtones 😊
I don't understand how it's considered "seminal fantasy" though, I don't think it deserves that status...
