
From the sound of things, though, Beagle has a bit more up his sleeve. Beagle, now 83, is already back in the swing of things, authoring The Way Home: Two Novellas from the World of The Last Unicorn, which is currently scheduled for release on Apfrom Penguin Publishing Group. Following a years-long court battle in which Beagle accused Cochran of financial elder abuse, the author finally regained the creative rights to The Last Unicorn in 2021. Beagle previously lost the rights to the intellectual property to his manager, Connor Cochran, who also had control over Beagle's finances. The Last Unicorn has notoriously been the subject of legal issues. Beagle is the internationally-bestselling author of the fantasy classic, The Last Unicorn, which has sold over five million copies since its initial publication in 1968.His novels include A Fine & Private Place, The Innkeeper’s Song, Tamsin, and most recently, Summerlong and In Calabria. A six-issue comic book adaptation of Beagle's 1968 novel launched from IDW Publishing in 2010, adapted by Peter B. Beagle eventually authored Two Hearts, a 2005 novella that serves as a coda to The Last Unicorn. and Jules Bass, premiering in theaters on Nov.

Beagle about a unicorn who learns that she is the last unicorn in the world and sets out from her. Beagle himself penned the screenplay for ITC's animated film adaptation, which was directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. The Last Unicorn (1968) is a fantasy novel by Peter S. At the Last Unicorn!īeagle's The Last Unicorn was originally published by Viking Press in 1968, when the author was in his late 20s. But outside her wondrous realm, dark whispers and rumours carried a message she could not ignore: Unicorns are gone from the world.
