New Releases by Peter S Beagle

"Great heroes need great afflictions and sorrows; otherwise, half their greatness would go unnoticed. It's the stuff of fairy tales." The last member of her kind is a unicorn. Since time immemorial, she has lived in a forest, untouched by the shadow of death. Maidens who glimpsed her glory were blessed with an enchantment they will never forget. But outside her wondrous kingdom, dark whispers and rumors arrive that she cannot ignore: "Unicorns have vanished from the world." With the assistance of a clumsy wizard and an untamed spinster, she sets out to uncover the truth. However, a fear wells up within her that even her immortal wisdom means nothing in a world where the curse of a mad king and the terror embodied in a ruthless creature live on, intent only on bringing the last unicorn to its doom. "One of the greatest fantasy novels of all time." The Atlantic

De um dos maiores nomes da fantasia americana, um clássico esquecido da fantasia emerge. “Peter S. Beagle ilumina o mundo com sua luz própria.” — URSULA K. LE GUIN “O melhor livro que já li. Você precisa lê-lo. Se já leu, leia novamente.” — PATRICK ROTHFUSS “Um dos melhores livros de fantasia de todos os tempos.” — THE ATLANTIC “Um conto de fadas atemporal.” — THE NEW YORK TIMES “Este livro é para quem ainda acredita, ou quer voltar a acreditar, que a fantasia sempre tem algo especial a nos dizer.” — TAMIRES SANTOS, Resenhando Sonhos Uma das obras mais sensacionais do século XX, o livro que a revista The Atlantic chamou de “um dos melhores romances de fantasia de todos os tempos.” A unicórnio vivia em uma floresta lilás, e vivia completamente só... ...até que partiu da segurança de sua floresta encantada em uma busca por outros de sua espécie. Ao longo do caminho, juntam-se a ela o desastrado mágico Schmendrick e a corajosa Molly Grue. A unicórnio descobrirá as alegrias e tristezas da vida e do amor até encontrar seu destino no castelo de um monarca melancólico. E confrontar a criatura que poderia levar sua espécie à extinção… Uma jornada fantástica cheia de maravilhas, que encantou milhares de leitores no mundo todo finalmente chega ao Brasil. Com introdução de Patrick Rothfuss e Prefácio de Tamirez Santos, O último unicórnio é um clássico da fantasia mundial.

A USA TODAY Bestseller From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Unicorn comes a “gorgeous and vibrant and wistfully fantastic” (Travis Baldree, New York Times bestselling author of Legends and Lattes) new novel in which a loveable cast of characters trapped within their roles of dragon hunter, princess, and more must come together to take their fates into their own hands. Dragons are common in the backwater kingdom of Bellemontagne, coming in sizes from mouse-like vermin all the way up to castle-smashing monsters. Gaius Aurelius Constantine Heliogabalus Thrax (who would much rather people call him Robert) has recently inherited his deceased dad’s dead job as a dragon catcher/exterminator, a career he detests with all his heart in part because he likes dragons, feeling a kinship with them, but mainly because his dream has always been the impossible one of transcending his humble origin to someday become a prince’s valet. Needless to say, fate has something rather different in mind…

This fantasy novel is the tale of three women of legendary skill on a quest to save the world’s most powerful wizard, and the innkeeper’s assistant whose heartbreak will bear witness, from the author of the bestselling The Last Unicorn. On a night like any other, three mysterious women arrive to an inn separately, one with a fox that is more than it seems. Karsh, the innkeeper, has no choice but to let the tangled drama unfold beneath his roof. His stable boy, Rosseth, is so mesmerized by the three cloaked women, a warrior nun, a fabled adventurer, and a girl who was saved from drowning, that he soon uncovers a deep secret that was better off remaining hidden. And then there is Tikat, overwhelmed by tragedy, who continues his journey to the inn, refusing to let death bring an end his love. Told in alternating points of view, fantasy master Peter S. Beagle has crafted an unforgettable novel of heartbreak and hope.

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Renowned author Peter S. Beagle returns to the world of The Last Unicorn in this resonant and moving two-novella collection, featuring the award-winning “Two Hearts” and the brand-new “Sooz.” The Last Unicorn is one of fantasy’s most revered classics, beloved by generations of readers and with millions of copies in print. Revisiting the world of that novel, Beagle’s long-awaited Hugo and Nebula-Awards-winning “Two Hearts” introduced the irrepressible Sooz on a quest to save her village from a griffin, and explored the bonds she formed with unforgettable characters like the wise and wonderful Molly Grue and Schmendrick the Magician. In the never-before-published “Sooz,” the events of “Two Hearts” are years behind its narrator, but a perilous journey lies ahead of her, in a story that is at once a tender meditation on love and loss, and a lesson in finding your true self. The Way Home is suffused with Beagle’s wisdom, profound lyricism, and sly wit; and collects two timeless works of fantasy.

Peter S. Beagle first imagined his beloved unicorn at the age of twenty-three, five years before she would spring fully-realized into the world. Now, alongside Beagle's wry musings upon his early writing career, is the rediscovered origin story of fantasy's most famous unicorn. Within this eighty-five page genesis of The Last Unicorn, the equine heroine encounters a cranky dragon, a chatty butterfly, and an exiled demon with a split personality. Discover a might-have-been journey, appealingly familiar yet wonderfully strange, lyrical and whimsical by turns. Somewhere in-between the modern and mythological, lies the first path of the Last Unicorn on a road less traveled by...until now.

Collects the best of Peter S. Beagle's short stories, ranging across 45 years of his career from early stories to freshly minted tales that will surprise and amaze readers.

The long-awaited sequel to the popular classic The Last Unicorn is the centerpiece of the powerful collection of new tales from a fantasy master. As longtime fans have come to expect, the stories are written with a grace and style similar to fantasy's most original voices, such as J.R.R. Tolkien, Fritz Leiber, and Kurt Vonnegut. Traditional themes are typically infused with modern sensibilities--reincarnated lovers and waning kings run shoulders with heroic waifs; Schmendrick and Magician returns to adventure, as does the ghost of an off-Broadway actor and a dream-stealing shapeshifter; and Gordon, the delightfully charming "self-made cat," appears for the first time in print, taking his place alongside Stuart Little as a new favorite of the young at heart. This wide-ranging compilation contains sly humor and a resounding depth that will charm fans of literary fantasy.

Even lifelong friendships can't outlast death...or can they? The deeply personal story is of dreams abandoned and recovered, friends loved and lost, and the strength it takes to let go.

Tamsin is a young woman who died over 300 years ago. Jennifer is a young American transplanted to England. They are two lonely souls on opposite sides of life and death--a boundary they are both about to cross . . .

A collection of stories dealing with such themes as a fish who helps a maiden esacpe from an arranged marriage to the king, a boy who has unusually tall family members, and a magician who must teach a wicked queen all he knows.

In Los Angeles a thirteen-year-old girl follows haunting music across an invisible border into an enchanted land known as Shei'rah that is inhabited by satyrs, unicorns, and phoenixes.

While attending the revels of the League for Archaic Pleasurs, a group dedicated to the pleasures of the medieval period, Joe Farrell comes face-to-face with Nicholas Bonner, a spirit from the past and an ancient evil.

Schmendrick the Magician and Molly Grue accompany a beautiful unicorn on a search for other members of her nearly extinct species

One short story, one novella, and two complete movies populated by ghosts, unicorns and werewolves are included.

In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. articulated his dream, JFK was assassinated, and zip codes were first introduced to the US. The world was monumentally changing and changing fast. But in the eyes of future fantasy author Peter Beagle and his best friend Phil, it wasn't changing fast enough. For these two twenty-something beatnik Jews from the Bronx, change was something you chased after night and day across the country on the trembling seat of a motor scooter.