This is the first published version of Beauty and the Beast,
written by the French author Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve
in the mid-18th century and translated by James Robinson Planche.
It is a novel-length story intended for adult readers, addressing
the issues of the marriage system of the day in which women had no
right to choose their husband or to refuse to marry. There is also
a wealth of rich back story as to how the Prince became cursed and
revelations about Beauty's parentage, which fail to appear in
subsequent versions of the now classic fairy tale.
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