In today’s fantasy fiction, you would get zapped for saying things like, “… it is not like you see them in the movies today.” I love this book, but I spect it could never be published today. There is also playfulness without any reservation in using the narrator’s voice to compare this fantasy work to our world. Still, the language is beautiful, and some of the most poetic descriptions of the world I have ever read. There aren’t any major twists or surprises. The plot is a basic quest-style plot structure. Finally, they learn about where the unicorns were gathered up by a red bull at the cursed castle of King Haggard. Together they come into the company of a band of thieves and are joined by a woman who had seen this unicorn before name Molly Grue. She runs into danger and is helped by a cursed magician named Schmendrick. The story follows a single immortal unicorn as she travels out of her woods to see if she is the last one and what happened to the other unicorns. Published in 1968, The Last Unicorn predates the big surge of fantasy fiction that happened during the 70’s and 80’s. This one really surprised me with the pureness and lack of many of the modern-day conventions. I have been intentionally reading through these greats of the genre to improve my own writing. The Last Unicorn is another one of those older fantasy fiction books that are considered classics.
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