Beauty & The Beast
Fairy Tales with Granny MacDuff
Little Ears Media
4.4 • 932 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
When Beauty's father moves to the countryside, her sisters stay behind in the city to marry. But Beauty moves with her father to help him run the farm. On the way home from a trip, Beauty's father is stranded at a mansion where he meets the Beast. How will he manage to escape and what bargain will he have to make?
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| 1:18.8 | Good evening, children. It's Granny MacDuff. Ready with a story. So make yourselves comfy, and I'll begin. |
| 1:42.2 | Once upon a time, there lived a very rich merchant who had four children, three daughters, and a son. |
| 1:47.1 | The merchant spared no cost for their education. He insisted on his children having only the best teachers. His daughters were extremely beautiful, especially the |
| 1:52.8 | youngest. As a girl, she was so admired by all that they called her the little beauty. And as she |
| 1:59.4 | grew up, the name took roots, and so she was called beauty. |
| 2:03.6 | Her sisters were horribly jealous, especially that not only was she more beautiful, |
| 2:08.6 | but she was also a better person, a kinder person. |
| 2:13.6 | Beauty's sisters put on airs and thought themselves better than the rest because of their wealth. |
| 2:19.7 | They went out every day, whether it be to a party, a ball, or anything of that nature, the girls were there. |
| 2:27.4 | And while her sisters kept constant company, Beauty preferred to spend her days reading books, |
| 2:33.3 | which her sisters laughed at and teased her for. |
| 2:36.0 | As their family's wealth was widely known, many prominent merchants came to call on Beauty's sisters, |
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