When the roses finally bloom again, and Beauty thinks she has done what she was brought there to do, she asks leave to go home to her father and sisters. Its no wonder he keeps asking her to marry him, though she keeps refusing to do so. Now, as the price of her fathers life, Beauty must go to the Beasts mysterious, magic-filled palace and tend the seemingly lifeless roses in his glasshouse.īeauty grows to sympathize with the Beast more and more, while she adds her loving touch to the magic that helps the roses grow. The old man was only allowed to live when the Beast heard about Beauty and her roses. This curse comes back to Beautys mind when her father returns from a journey, shaken by an encounter with a horrible beast. And no magician has dared to approach the village of Longchance for many years. This is remarkable because, in Beautys world, only a magician can grow roses. And Beauty brings the cottages garden, especially its roses, to life. Jeweltongue discovers her true calling as a seamstress.
Lionheart dresses as a young man and finds employment in a rich squires stables.
How they came to inherit the little house is a mystery to them, but they make the most of it. At the same time this book expresses her love of roses, her wistfulness in leaving behind one home and one country for another, and some of loves profoundest mysteries, which she had experienced in her own recent marriage.īeauty, along with her widowed father and her sisters Lionheart and Jeweltongue, have relocated from a big mansion in the city to a small cottage in the country, after financial and social disasters left them humiliated and disillusioned. Twenty years after basing her first novel, Beauty, on the tale of ∻eauty and the Beast, Newbery-winning author McKinley revisited the same fairy tale in this remarkable book.
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