Hey, fantasy fans! As you probably know, today’s the release date for Beauty and the Beast, Disney’s live-action remake of their 1991 animated feature. Starring Emma Watson (Hermione of the Harry Potter movies) as Belle, Dan Stevens (FX’s Legion) as the Beast, Luke Evans (Dracula Untold) as the bombastic Gaston, and Ewan McGregor (Star Wars, Episodes I–III) as the dancing candlestick Lumiere, it tells the tale of a literally beastly prince who falls in love with a bookish girl with dreams beyond the provincial French village in which they live.
If you have plans to see it this weekend, perhaps you might be interested in another fairy tale with a memorable heroine…
Snow White is the classic story by the Brothers Grimm, and one of the titles in our Illustrated Classics line. Featuring full-color illustrations first published in 1883 (and they really are beautiful drawings), this digital-exclusive title is available for immediate download for the wickedly low price of just 99¢! Visit the Snow White product page for more information, including sample pages.
Along with Snow White, our Illustrated Classics line includes Edgar Rice Burroughs’s space-fantasy epic A Princess of Mars, J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s vampiric romance Carmilla, and our latest release (just out last week!): the 1932 novelization of the original King Kong, by Edgar Wallace, Merian C. Cooper, and Delos W. Lovelace. (And FYI, King Kong is regarded as one of the strangest “beauty and the beast” stories ever!)
They’re all great reads, with some spectacular illustrations, so visit each of the books’ product pages for more information.
