Download or read book Beauties and Beasts written by Betsy Hearne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1993-04-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers 28 versions of the fable of "Beauty and the Beast", with minimal adaptations from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and America. Afterwards, the author discusses Disney's film version of this familiar theme of a lonely beast transformed by the magic of human love.