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
Title Beauty and the Beast
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Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast
Credits Produced by Kim Pickett and The Hockliffe Project. HTML
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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
Last Update Aug 8, 2019
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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