{"product_id":"the-naiads-beauty-and-gabrielle-suzanne-barbot-de-villeneuve-9781612276267","title":"The Naiads * Beauty and the Beast","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Beauty and the Beast by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve was first published in 1740 and later abridged and rewritten by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in a better-known version in 1743.The main interests of Mme de Villeneuve's story are two sections, one in which the Beast explains how he came to be transformed and why it was forced to act as he did in regard to the Beauty; and the other in which the fay who contrived his liberation from his curse explains how and for what motives an evil rival placed her in that elaborate necessity. This original account of the organization and politics of the world of Faerie is of considerable interest, as well as completing the explanatory schema of the enigmatic fundamental tale.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Naiads, published 100 years after Mme de Villeneuve's death, is one of the earliest fantasy novels. It is set in a distant past in a fictitious realm with a religion based on elemental spirits. While it uses the stock motifs of the fairy tale, featuring a Prince Perfect who falls in love with a shepherdess, unaware that she is really a Princess, as well as a wicked stepmother and an ugly sister bent on persecuting the beleaguered heroine, it also looks behind those motifs and provide them with elaborate explanatory schemas, such as the strange story of the Mill of Misfortune and the revelation of the Prince's true identity by the Gnome Queen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot De Villeneuve\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1612276261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781612276267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hollywood Comics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.87d","brand":"Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot De Villeneuve","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44068842078463,"sku":"9781612276267","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d025270e-d074-4317-b5c6-dd331072f375.jpg?v=1685421309","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-naiads-beauty-and-gabrielle-suzanne-barbot-de-villeneuve-9781612276267","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}