Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume is a novel by Charlotte M. Yonge. It retells a universal fairy-tale motif—echoed in Beauty and the Beast—in an eighteenth-century English setting, exploring love and the soul's awakening. Worth listening for its gentle blend of legend and historical costume.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
LOVE AND LIFE
An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume
By Charlotte M. Yonge
Transcriber’s note: There are numerous examples throughout this text of words appearing in alternate spellings: madame/ madam, practise/ practice, Ladyship/ladyship, &c. We can only wonder what the publisher had in mind. I have left them unchanged.—D.L.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
The first edition of this tale was put forth without explaining the old fable on which it was founded—a fable recurring again and again in fairy myths, though not
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