Set in current times after "the change" (when virtually all but the most primitive technology stops working and magical creatures start showing up), Ariel features a dull and wimpy main character who teams up with a talking unicorn to battle an evil necromancer.

From the original review in The Age, Melbourne, Australia, July 10, 1965: Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1932. The little bastard just couldn't keep his pants on for one more night - sacrificed his bond with his best friend, his familiar, who loved him for some unknown reason and whom he supposedly loved more than anything, so that he could shag the first girl he was exposed to for more than ten minutes.

By the time she took her life at the age of 30, Plath already had a following in the literary community. Pete names her Ariel and teaches her how to talk, how to read, and how to survive in a world in which a unicorn horn has become a highly prized commodity.

He goes on to say that he can only love the young woman from the temple, whom he believes rescued him. They have traveled alone together for going on two years, and when a girl joins them - because she is irresistibly drawn to the unicorn, though not a virgin - Ariel puts two and two together: 20-year-old male, 20-something girl, alone.They are difficult, uncertain poems, some extremely obscure and all primarily dependent on central images. but you may not give a whit about such details, because you are distracted by a unicorn with a sense of humor, and a human with an inferior one. So, Pete gets away, and next thing he knows has fallen in with a group who plan to try to battle the Big Bad, and he can help them and they him and so they take him back to their base. One effect of Pete's self-centeredness, I suppose, is that he seems to be genuinely confused about why Ariel grows bitchier when a girl insists on joining their traveling party.

While in production in the 1980s, the staff by chance found the original story and visual development work done by Kay Nielsen for Disney's proposed 1930s Andersen feature. The book was originally published in 1983, when the world was a very different place, and Boyett added a prefacing author's note for the reprint.Minimal signs of wear and faint toning to cover margins of jacket, else book and dust jacket in fine condition. Item despatched quickly and as described, but damaged in transit due to plastic wrap packaging being inadequate protection.