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The Last Unicorn

Peter S Beagle
Contents (23)
  1. The Last Unicorn
  2. Author’s Introduction
  3. Chapter 1
  4. Chapter 2
  5. Chapter 3
  6. Chapter 4
  7. Chapter 5
  8. Chapter 6
  9. Chapter 7
  10. Chapter 8
  11. Chapter 9
  12. Chapter 10
  13. Chapter 11
  14. Chapter 12
  15. Chapter 13
  16. Chapter 14
  17. Two Hearts
  18. Introduction
  19. Two Hearts
  20. A Conversation With Peter S. Beagle
  21. Works by Peter S. Beagle
  22. Afterword
  23. About the Author

The Last Unicorn

Deluxe Edition

by Peter S. Beagle

The Last Unicorn © 1968 Peter S. Beagle. First published in the United States of America by Viking Press, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014. Reprinted by permission of Avicenna Development Corporation.

“Two Hearts” © 2005 Peter S. Beagle. First published in the United States of America in the October/November 2005 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a publication of Spilogale, Inc., PO Box 3447, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Reprinted by permission of Avicenna Development Corporation.

Introduction for The Last Unicorn © 2007 Peter S. Beagle. Introduction for “Two Hearts” © 2007 Connor Cochran. “A Conversation with Peter S. Beagle” © 2007 Connor Cochran. All reprinted by permission of Avicenna Development Corporation.

Cover art by Rebekah Naomi Cox.

Cover design by Yuan Fung.

Deluxe compilation edition © 2007 Peter S. Beagle. First published in this form by Barnes & Noble, Inc. for Roc, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Reprinted with permission of Avicenna Development Corporation.

ISBNs:
978-0-970-68015-0 (.mobi)
978-0-970-68016-7 (.epub)
978-0-970-68017-4 (.pdf)

Without limiting any rights under the copyrights noted above, no part of this edition may be scanned, stored, reproduced, distributed, or republished in any form or by any means without prior written authorization from the copyright holder.

This edition presents the definitive texts of The Last Unicorn and “Two Hearts,” as revised and corrected in 2007 by Peter S. Beagle and Connor Cochran.

Conlan Press offers printed books, audiobooks, graphic novels, and related merchandise from Peter S. Beagle and other writers through our webstore at http://www.conlanpress.com.

Contents

The Last Unicorn

Author’s Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Two Hearts

Introduction

Two Hearts

A Conversation With Peter S. Beagle

Works by Peter S. Beagle

Afterword

About the Author

The Last Unicorn

Author’s Introduction

In April of 1968 I wrote an essay for the San Francisco Chronicle, on the eve of the publication of The Last Unicorn. I was living in a rickety, unheated shack on a redwood hillside, just a few miles out of Santa Cruz, with my young family, one dog, one pigeon (the dog’s faithful lifelong buddy) and a cat population that could best be described as in perpetual flux. I wrote The Last Unicorn there, and hated the book when I was done‌—‌saw it as a complete failure, an embarrassment. I hated it for at least a year. Then, as I tried to describe in that essay, reprinted here for the first time, a thing happened….

A few nights ago I read from The Last Unicorn in a Santa Cruz coffeehouse, and discovered that I like the book. It was the greenwood chapter: the scene introducing the outlaw Captain Cully and his miserable men. People laughed, and that was pleasing enough (my idea of hell for a writer would feature the eternal writing and revising of something that’s supposed to be funny). But that wasn’t it. Somewhere, literally between one sentence and another, I realized that I’d written a good book. I’ve been a little dizzy since, and I still am.