Lifeβs not a fairy tale, and princes donβt fall for bookish virgins like me. I didnβt know about the secret palace in the woods. Not until I held a stolen rose from its gardens. A tall, dark, and mysterious man lives within the palace. Heβs known across the kingdom as the royal beast. They say h
Beasts Royal: Twelve Tales of Adventure
β Scribed by O'Brian, Patrick
- Book ID
- 109194737
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 560 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780008112943
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β¦ Synopsis
Beasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick O'Brian οΏ½ made available, at last, for the first time since the 1930s and beautifully repackaged. Published when Patrick O'Brian was just nineteen, this is the enchanting, often bloodthirsty collection of twelve tales of animal adventure that would appear in 1934 as the author's second book. His first, Caesar, had been published in 1930 and was an instant success, seeing O'Brian hailed as the 'boy-Thoreau'. As with Caesar, Beasts Royal sheds fascinating light on the formation of the literary genius behind the Aubrey-Maturin series of historical adventure tales. With the dry wit and unsentimental precision O'Brian would come to be loved for, we see the tragedies of ...
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