The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
By: A. N. Roquelaure
Edition: 1st Plume printing (5)
Series: The Sleeping Beauty Series, #1
Publisher: Plume
Published: 1983
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780452266568
Copyright date: 1983
Subjects: Erotic fiction
First sentence: THE PRINCE had all his young life known the story of Sleeping Beauty, cursed to sleep for a hundred years, with her parents, the King and Queen, and all of the Court, after pricking her finger on a spindle.
Description: In the traditional folktale of "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind's unconscious. Now Anne Rice's retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. Here the Prince awakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement to him...as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling experience.
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Notes: US/CAN