![]() ![]() Then the old merchant hears what proves to be a false report that one of his ships had made it safe to harbor at last, and on his sad, disappointed way home again he becomes lost deep in the forest and has a terrifying encounter with a fierce Beast, who walks like a man and lives in a castle. The sisters’ wealthy father loses all his money when his merchant fleet is drowned in a storm, and the family moves to a village far away. ![]() as if ‘honourable’ were the best that could be said of me. I wasn’t really very fond of my given name, Honour, either. ![]() īy the time it was evident that I was going to let the family down by being plain, I’d been called Beauty for over six years. . . . He succeeded in explaining grace and hope, but he had some difficulty trying to make the concept of honour understandable to a five-year-old. . . . My father still likes to tell the story of how I acquired my odd nickname: I had come to him for further information when I first discovered that our names meant something besides you-come-here. Our literal-minded mother named us Grace, Hope, and Honour. . . . Robin McKinley’s acclaimed first novel is a brilliant reimagining of the classic French fairy tale ![]()
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