title: The Order of the Unicorn (The Imaginary Veterinary)
author:  Suzanne Selfors 
description: <b>Praise for </b><b>the Imaginary Veterinary series</b><b>:</b>
zlib_text: Contents
  The Last Unicorn
  Author’s Introduction
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Chapter 12
  Chapter 13
  Chapter 14
  Two Hearts
  Introduction
  Two Hearts
  A Conversation With Peter S. Beagle
  Works by Peter S. Beagle
  Afterword
  About the Author
  2
  
  The Last Unicorn
  3
  
  Author’s Introduction
  In April of 1968 I wrote an essay for the San Francisco Chronicle, on
  the eve of the publication of The Last Unicorn. I was living in a rickety,
  unheated shack on a redwood hillside, just a few miles out of Santa
  Cruz, with my young family, one dog, one pigeon (the dog’s faithful
  lifelong buddy) and a cat population that could best be described as in
  perpetual flux. I wrote The Last Unicorn there, and hated the book
  when I was done—saw it as a complete failure, an embarrassment. I
  hated it for at least a year. Then, as I tried to describe in that essay,
  reprinted here for the first time, a thing happened….
   
  A few nights ago I read