Das letzte Einhorn

The Last Unicorn is the best book I have ever read. Patrick Rothfuss. For a long time, The Last Unicorn has been part of the canon of world literature for readers of all ages, and it has lost none of its fascination to this day. Countless fans have been introduced to fantasy through this book. It tells a unique story about freedom and its threats, using the example of an endangered mythical creature.

The unicorn lived in a lilac-colored forest, all alone. One day, it ventured out of the safety of the enchanted woods in search of others of its kind. Together with the somewhat inept wizard Schmendrick and the unyielding Molly Grue, the unicorn learns about the joys and sorrows of life and love before encountering its fate in the castle of a despairing monarch—and the being that seeks to drive its kind to extinction.

In hardly any other book is the longing for freedom and the yearning for an everlasting nature and beauty expressed as profoundly as in The Last Unicorn.

The bright sparkle of the horns. Like rainbow-glimmering masts on silver ships, the horns emerged from the sea. Each wave brought hundreds, they reared up and stomped, arching their long, cloud-like necks far back.