Peter S. Beagle is "the class act of fantasy writing," according to Booklist contributor John Mort. A writer whose highly regarded fantasy fiction has wrought comparisons to J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Le...
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Below, Riely remarks on Beagle's skillful personification of animals in The Last Unicorn.
It is nothing to be surprised at that a man whose first novel [A Fine and Private Place] began with ...
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In the following excerpt, Hicks argues that The Last Unicorn is a fable about imagination and the artist.
Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn is frankly a fantasy, as was his first novel, A Fine...
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In the following essay, Norford discusses the symbolism of the characters in The Last Unicorn.
A cheeky and didactic squirrel in Peter S. Beagle's A Fine and Private Place (1960) tells the c...
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In the essay below, Stevens argues that Beagle uses humor to manipulate the tone of The Last Unicorn.
While humor is peripheral to much fantasy, it is central to Peter Beagle's The Last Unic...
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Peter S. Beagle
Critical Review by Benedict Riely
