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| The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances |
| Author(s): Beagle, Peter S. |
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| List Price: $15.95 |
| Format: Paperback (Trade Paper) |
| Publisher: Tachyon Publications |
| Imprint: Tachyon Publications |
| ISBN: 1892391090 or 9781892391094 |
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| 2004 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire winner Pe ... |
 | 2004 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire winner
Peter S. Beagle’s The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances celebrates the beginning of Beagle’s extraordinary career as a fantasist. Widely available for the first time and with a new preface by the author, this delightful book contains seven short stories and three essays by one of the most popular authors in the history of the fantasy field.
The Last Unicorn, Beagle’s most beloved novel, was an underground best-seller in the late 1960s and 1970s and is still in print and enchanting new readers today. It reached an audience far beyond the market for fantasy books, tying in with an emerging counter-culture and selling hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of copies. The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche contains two of Beagle’s popular unicorn stories, “Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros” and “Julie’s Unicorn,” as well as “Lila the Werewolf” (anthologized in the Oxford Book of Fantasy) and a tribute to J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Naga.”>hr<“Under the Zucchini”: An Essay by Patricia A. McKillip
FICTION:
Come Lady Death
Julie’s Unicorn
Lila the Werewolf
My Daughter’s Name Is Sarah
Pittsburgh Stories (a Recollection)
Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros
Telephone Call
The Naga
ESSAYS:
D. H. Lawrence in Taos
Learning a Trade
My Last Hero
The Poor People’s Campaign
>hr<“A celebration of Peter Beagle.”
—Washington Post Book World
“...Mixes classic tales with new gems, early stories, and various nonfiction. Beagle’s essay about ‘D. H. Lawrence in Taos’is worth the price of the book.”
—The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror: 11th Annual Collection
“...This collection proves just how essential Beagle is to modern fantasy. Without Beagle’s early example we’d have no Blaylock or Powers.... A story like ‘The Naga’ is worthy of inclusion in the Arabian Nights.”
—Asimov’s Science Fiction
“...A nicely designed collection of Peter Beagle’s best short work.”
—Mythprint
“Werewolves, Unicorns, the Dreadful Specter of Death at a Ball—you may think you’ve read these stories before. Peter S. Beagle demonstrates most eloquently that unless you’ve read his versions, you haven’t read these stories at all. Everything Beagle touches, he makes new. Every sentence he shapes encapsulates a song. This is both a delightful and moving collection.”
—Michael Bishop
“Peter S. Beagle is the magician we all apprenticed ourselves to. Before all the endless series and shared-world novels, Beagle was there to show us the amazing possibilities waiting in the worlds of fantasy, and he is still one of the masters by which the rest of the field is measured. I envy people reading these stories for the first time.”
—Lisa Goldstein, author of The Uncertain Places
“Peter S. Beagle would be one of the century’s great writers in any arena he chose; we readers must feel blessed that Beagle picked fantasy as a homeland. Magic pumps like blood through the veins of his stories. Imparting passionately breathing, singing, laughing reality to the marvelous is his great gift to us all.”
—Edward Bryant
“Peter S. Beagle is our best modern fabulist in the tradition of Hawthorne and Twain. From the dark pride in the story “Come Lady Death” to the dignity and love rising from a rhino-emblazoned philosophy, the stories in this book make the Fantastic become real, the Real both dark and lovely.”
—Jack Cady>hrThe Last Unicorn, which has sold a reported five million copies since its initial publication in 1968. His other novels include A Fine & Private Place, The Innkeeper’s Song, and Tamsin. His short fiction has been collected in four volumes by Tachyon Publications, including The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche, The Line Between, We Never Talk About My Brother, and Sleight of Hand. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, Mythopoeic, and Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire awards and the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. |
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Other Books by this Author
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| A Dance for Emilia; by Beagle, Peter S.; Roc Hardcover, Roc Hardcover |
| A Fine and Private Place; by Beagle, Peter S.; Roc Trade, Roc Trade |
| A Fine and Private Place; by Beagle, Peter S.; Penguin Publishing Group, Viking |
| A Fine & Private Place; by Beagle, Peter S.; Tachyon Publications, Tachyon Publications |
| The First Last Unicorn and Other Beginnings; by Beagle, Peter S.; Tachyon Publications, Tachyon Publications |
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More Books by this Author...
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| Garden of Earthly Delights; by Beagle, Peter S.; Penguin Books, Penguin Books |
| Giant Bones; by Beagle, Peter S.; Roc Trade, Roc Trade |
| I See By My Outfit; by Beagle, Peter S.; Penguin Publishing Group, Penguin Books |
| In Calabria; by Beagle, Peter S.; Tachyon Publications, Tachyon Publications |
| The Innkeeper's Song; by Beagle, Peter S.; Penguin Publishing Group, Ace |
| The Innkeeper's Song; by Beagle, Peter S.; Roc Trade, Roc Trade |
| The Last Unicorn; by Beagle, Peter S.; Penguin Publishing Group, Ace |
| The Last Unicorn; by Beagle, Peter S.; HighBridge Company, Penguin-HighBridge |
| The Last Unicorn; by Beagle, Peter S.; IDW Publishing, IDW Publishing |
| The Last Unicorn (Graphic Novel); by Beagle, Peter S.; IDW Publishing, IDW Publishing |
| The Last Unicorn (Graphic Novel); by Beagle, Peter S.; IDW Publishing, IDW Publishing |
| Last Unicorn: The Deluxe Edition; by Beagle, Peter S.; IDW Publishing, IDW Publishing |
| The Line Between; by Beagle, Peter S.; Tachyon Publications, Tachyon Publications |
| Sleight of Hand; by Beagle, Peter S.; Tachyon Publications, Tachyon Publications |
| The Story of Kao Yu; by Beagle, Peter S.; Tom Doherty Associates, Tor Books |
| Summerlong; by Beagle, Peter S.; Tachyon Publications, Tachyon Publications |
| Tamsin; by Beagle, Peter S.; Penguin Young Readers Group, Firebird |
| Tamsin; by Beagle, Peter S.; Penguin Publishing Group, Berkley |
| Tamsin; by Beagle, Peter S.; Roc Trade, Roc Trade |
| Tamsin; by Beagle, Peter S.; Roc Hardcover, Roc Hardcover |
| Tamsin; by Beagle, Peter S.; Penguin Publishing Group, Berkley |
| We Never Talk about My Brother; by Beagle, Peter S.; Tachyon Publications, Tachyon Publications |
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