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Beauties and Beasts - The Oryx Multicultural Folktale Series
Betsy Hearne
Beauties and Beasts - The Oryx Multicultural Folktale Series
Betsy Hearne
This volume offers 28 versions of the fable of "Beauty and the Beast", with minimal adaptations from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and America. Afterwards, the author discusses Disney's film version of this familiar theme of a lonely beast transformed by the magic of human love.
176 pages, bibliography
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 13, 1993 |
ISBN13 | 9780897747295 |
Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
Pages | 192 |
Dimensions | 216 × 279 × 12 mm · 553 g |