"Beauty and the Beast" Written by Yutaka Suzuki / Madame de Beaumont, Kadokawa Bunko, 20250201 Price: ¥520 A beautiful woman with three sisters, whose father is a wealthy merchant. The two older sisters are arrogant, but the youngest, Belle, is a kind-hearted girl. One day, the merchant gets lost and stumbles upon an unmanned castle. In the castle overflowing with treasures, the merchant picks a single rose as a souvenir for Belle, which was the most precious thing to the terrifying Beast who lived in the castle. As a consequence, Belle had to go to the castle where the terrifying Beast lived. Now, what did the Beast ask of her...? This beautiful and fantastical story, praised by the poet Jean Cocteau and made into a film, is an immortal tale that continues to capture people's hearts even today, two hundred years after it was written. It also includes fourteen other gems such as "Three Wishes." ---------- Please use the following tags for books in the same genre (based on Amazon classification): #Aki's French Literature Studies #Aki's French Literature #Aki's Kadokawa Bunko #BeautyAndTheBeast #YutakaSuzuki #Yutaka_Suzuki #MadameDeBeaumont #Book #ForeignLiterature/Novel/Story