Reviewed by Whitney @ First Impressions Reviews on
Beauty is given full reign of the house with the Beast's only request is that she join him for dinner every night in which he asks her to be his wife and every night she politely declines. Soon, it is reveled that her father is sick and asks to go to him with the condition that she returns in a week. Upon her arrival a trunk magically appears filled with fine clothes but when she suggests that they be given to her sisters as a gift they disappear as mysteriously as they arrived. Beauty exceeds the promised week returning to find the Beast dying from longing of her; where upon she declares that she loves him and will marry him as well. At these words the curse is broken and the Beast turns into a prince with the message of beauty being in the eye of the beholder.
This is a lovely fairy tale and while it has the storyline we all know and love is still quite different; with alterations of the ending having magic exceeding that of which is usually associated with the tale. Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont's enchanting story is eerily and dare I say it? Beautiful.
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 18 January, 2010: Finished reading
- 18 January, 2010: Reviewed