I'm afraid you've got dragons /
Peter S Beagle.
- First Saga Press hardcover edition.
- 278 pages ; 24 cm
Dragons are common in the backwater kingdom of Bellemontagne, coming in sizes from mouse-like vermin all the way up to castle-smashing monsters. Gaius Aurelius Constantine Heliogabalus Thrax (who would much rather people call him Robert) has recently inherited his deceased dad's job as a dragon catcher/exterminator, a career he detests with all his heart in part because he likes dragons, feeling a kinship with them, but mainly because his dream has always been the impossible one of transcending his humble origin to someday become a prince's valet. Needless to say, fate has something rather different in mind...
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Dragons--Fiction. Imaginary places--Fiction. Kings and rulers--Fiction. Man-woman relationships--Fiction. Princes--Fiction. Princesses--Fiction.