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The Last Unicorn: The Lost Version
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An early draft of The Last Unicorn, written in 1962 and published for the first time in 2006. As in the finished novel, an immortal unicorn leaves her lilac wood to look for others of her kind, and trades witty remarks with a whiny dragon.
She meets a two-headed demon, Azazel and Webster, who are carrying a coal stolen from hell, and a plot about the exiled demon takes over the action, until the fragment breaks off. Peter S. Beagle's introduction and afterword explain how it connects with the book that was finally written.
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Beagle, Peter S.
Peter Soyer Beagle is an American novelist and screenwriter, especially of fantasy fiction. His best-known work is The Last Unicorn (1968) which Locus subscribers voted the number five "All-Time Best Fantasy Novel" in 1987. He has won several literary awards, including a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2011. He was named Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master by SFWA in 2018. Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_S._Beagle
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