That, and a profound love of horses and books and roses.

What both books have in common is a whole-hearted belief in the power of romantic love as a redemptive force, and the nearly superhuman ability to keep that belief from becoming sentimental. (The Beast, interestingly, stays fairly constant from book to book.) Rose Daughter is spikier than Beauty, and many readers find it harder to fall in love with, but it has always been my favorite of the two. Its prose is polished to a glittering sheen - for my money, it has some of the most beautiful sentences in McKinley’s impressive oeuvre - and its heroine is more introverted and damaged than Beauty’s, its castle more sinister. Rose Daughter came 20 years later, and it’s a little denser than Beauty. It’s immensely warm and charming, with an appealingly clumsy, nerdy heroine and a magic castle so whimsical you’ll want to live there. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. Seller Rating: Contact seller Book Used - Softcover Condition: Good US 3.96 Convert currency Free shipping Within U.S.A. Read reviews and buy Beauty - by Robin McKinley (Paperback) at Target. Beauty and Rose Daughter are the only two of her books to be explicit retellings of “Beauty and the Beast,” and they are two of her loveliest.īeauty is McKinley’s first novel, published in 1978. Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast McKinley, Robin Published by HarperCollins, 1993 ISBN 10: 0064404773 ISBN 13: 9780064404778 Seller: Your Online Bookstore, Houston, U.S.A.

Our literal-minded mother named us Grace, Hope, and Honour. Robin McKinley sometimes says that all of her books are “Beauty and the Beast” stories on one level or another - most of them are about a person falling in love with someone who is in some way ugly or monstrous, and using love to bridge the gap between them. The New York Timesbestselling author of Rose Daughter reimagines the classic French fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast.

Beauty by Robin McKinley