Lured by another one of Giselle’s false promises of friendship, Belle finds herself intruding on the Beast and one of the castle’s most closely guarded secrets: a beautiful woman frozen in crystal. As Belle learns more about her employer and the curse that afflicts him and his subjects, she must come to terms with the evil she will face as she continues the search for her mother—and the heartbreak she will suffer if she stays with the Beast any longer.

"Guard your secrets. After a centuries-long slumber, the crystallized sleeping beauty finally awakens! Belle is forced to look on helplessly as the Beast is reunited with his beloved fiancée, her unrequited feelings threatening to consume her. Things come to a head when those very feelings are accidentally revealed in front of all the castle residents, but luckily for Belle, an unexpected ally rushes to her aid... ."--Back cover

Young and rambunctious Belle insists on going out to play in the forbidden woods, but her adventurous streak abruptly ends when her mother is spirited away by a beast known to kidnap beautiful women. Twisted by the loss of his wife, Belle's father keeps his daughter, who has unusual, violet hair, locked away in an effort to "protect" her from prying eyes. Finally emerging after years of solitude, Belle ventures back into the woods where she lost her mother and encounters the beast once more...

Young and rambunctious Belle insists on going out to play in the forbidden woods, but her adventurous streak abruptly ends when her mother is spirited away by a beast known to kidnap beautiful women. Twisted by the loss of his wife, Belle’s father keeps his daughter, who has unusual, violet hair, locked away in an effort to “protect” her from prying eyes. Finally emerging after years of solitude, Belle ventures back into the woods where she lost her mother and encounters the beast once more…

FIND YOUR ROOTS The Beast accepts la Médium’s suspicious invitation to return to his homeland of Issus, and Belle is determined to follow after him in the hopes of confirming her mother’s whereabouts. Little does she know that la Médium has some grisly surprises in store for her as part of an intricate plot for vengeance. To overcome these challenges, Belle will need to rely on her own wits—and a few unlikely sources…

First published in 2002. This is Volume II of the collected works of G.Wilson Knight and this revised looks at the Shakespearian Tempest and includes a Chart of Shakespeare’s Dramatic Universe.

1994 marked the centenary of the deaths of Walter Pater, Christina Rossetti and Robert Louis Stevenson, and Beauty and the Beast is largely devoted to an exploration of aspects of their lives and their writings, and the role they played in the development of British literature. Both individually and as a group, these writers offer interesting opportunities to investigate a distinctive ambivalence in the literature of the last three decades of the nineteenth century. Thus we may observe how Pater as the founder of Aestheticism in British literature addressed the Victorian dilemma how to live in Marius the Epicurean; how Rossetti's poetry expresses both spiritual and erotic tendencies, while Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is perhaps the epitome of the fin-de-siècle tension between good and evil, beauty and beast. Yet the scope of this book also includes an examination of the relationships between these three authors and their contemporaries, and of their setting, on the British Isles as well as on the Continent. Thus George Moore makes his appearance, next to Anton Chekhov, Arthur Schnitzler, Oscar Wilde, Alain Fournier and Louis Couperus. The various discussions of these French, German, Russian, Italian, Irish and Dutch connections in this book reflect the international setting of the European fin-de-siècle as a background against which the theme of Beauty and the Beast is discussed. Contributors are: Wim Tigges, C.C. Barfoot, Jan Marsh, Valeria Tinkler-Villani, Amanda Gilroy, Peter van de Kamp, Billie Andrew Inman, Laurel Brake, Peter Costello, Ans Kabel, Douglas S. Mack, Tim Youngs, Neil Cornwell, Sjef Houppermans, Jacques B.H. Alblas, John Stokes, Susan de Sola Rodstein.