Collected Item: “Crane, Walter. Beauty and the Beast. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1875.”
Full bibliographic citation (MLA)
Crane, Walter, Edmund Evans, and de B. J.-M. Leprince. Beauty and the Beast. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1875. Internet resource.
Title of the complete book/anthology (not a single chapter/fairy tale)
Beauty and the Beast
The name of the author or editor of the complete book/anthology (leave blank if none are listed)
Walter Crane; Edmund Evans; Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont; George Routledge and Sons
Illustrator(s) of the book/anthology (leave blank if none are listed)
Walter Crane
City where the book/anthology was published
London and New York
The country where the book/anthology was published (use United States for US publications)
England and US
The publisher of the book/anthology (as written on the title page)
George Routledge and Sons
Date of publication (or date range from the library catalog, if no dates are listed in the book)
1875
The decade the book was published (use the drop down menu)
1870-1879
The fairy tale type (use the drop down menu)
Beauty and the Beast
What is special about this version of the tale?
Beauty and the Beast is a simplified tale with light colorful images that caters toward young readers, especially children. It is a very light and simple read with many magical and delightful elements. In this version, the prince is spelled by a magician: doomed to wear the form of a beast, until a beautiful girl should love him despite his ugliness.
A brief summary of the plot that highlights any unique variations
This tale is a simplified retelling of the Beauty and the Beast narrative arc. Beauty, despite her jealous sisters, finds happiness with a prince doomed to wear the form of a beast. When her troubled merchant father goes on a journey, Beauty requests a rose. Unknowingly on the way back, he regrettably picks the prettiest rose in the Beast’s garden where the Beast threatens his life for one of his daughters. Beauty willingly goes to live in the Beast’s palace and gets treated like a queen (waited on by monkeys) and is asked every night if she would marry the Beast. After begging the Beast, Beauty is granted a ring to which she can travel home and back for 2 months with gifts to bring. After awhile and despite her brothers’ and father’s begging, she returns to the Beast who is dying on the garden ground. She confesses her love, breaking the magician’s spell and with good fortune the Beauty and the Beast get married.
The original source of the fairy tale, if easily identifiable (Straparola, Basile, de Beaumont, Perrault, Grimm, etc.)
Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve’s La Belle et La Bête
A link to a digital copy of the book
https://archive.org/details/beautybeast00cra/mode/2up
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