Project Gutenberg 2004-12-01 Public domain in the USA. 901 Leprince de Beaumont, Jeanne-Marie 1711 1780 Beaumont, Madame Leprince de (Jeanne-Marie Leprince) Leprince de Beaumont, Madame (Jeanne-Marie) De Beaumont, Madame Leprince (Jeanne-Marie Leprince) Le Prince de Beaumont, Madame (Jeanne-Marie) Prince de Beaumont, Madame Le (Jeanne-Marie) Beauty and the Beast Project Gutenberg has several editions of this eBook: #19967 (An illustrated HTML file) #23311 (An illustrated HTML file) #7074 (A Plain HTML file) Produced by Kim Pickett and The Hockliffe Project. HTML version by Al Haines. "Beauty and the Beast" by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont is a classic fairy tale written in the 18th century. The story explores themes of love, sacrifice, and the idea that true beauty comes from within, rather than from physical appearance. Centered around the characters of Beauty, a kind and virtuous young woman, and the Beast, who is under a curse, this tale weaves a narrative about transformation and acceptance. The narrative begins with Beauty's family facing financial ruin, leading her to sacrifice herself to save her father from the Beast, who demands one of his daughters as penance for a stolen rose. As Beauty lives in the Beast’s palace, she discovers his inner goodness despite his terrifying exterior. Through her kindness and companionship, she slowly comes to love him. When she leaves to see her father, her absence nearly causes the Beast to die of grief. Ultimately, upon returning to the Beast and confessing her love, she breaks the curse that transformed him into a beast, revealing him as a handsome prince. The story concludes with Beauty and the prince marrying and living happily, while Beauty's envious sisters face their own punishment for their pride and malice. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Fairy tales PZ Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 57372 57386 2024-09-03T10:56:56.096714 2023-10-03T10:32:38.773408 text/html text/html 53428 2019-08-08T12:24:02 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 20002 2019-08-08T12:33:10 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 71222 2024-09-03T10:56:59.384686 application/epub+zip 70113 2024-09-03T10:56:57.401724 application/epub+zip 70112 2024-09-03T10:56:56.576714 application/epub+zip 161884 2024-09-03T10:57:00.913730 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 155294 2024-09-03T10:56:58.864703 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 155488 2022-09-04T04:26:42.595106 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 49730 49661 2024-09-03T10:56:55.889710 2023-10-03T10:32:38.570421 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 49571 2014-03-18T21:21:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18918 2014-03-18T21:24:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18835 2024-09-03T10:57:01.047700 application/rdf+xml 13335 2024-09-03T10:56:56.918712 image/jpeg 3293 2024-09-03T10:56:56.746717 image/jpeg 71397 2024-09-03T10:56:56.103727 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia