The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
By: A.N. Roquelaure
Series: The Sleeping Beauty Series, #1
Publisher: Plume
Published: 1999 05
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780452281424
Copyright date: 1983
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.
(back cover)
Table of contents: title: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty --; title: The Journey and the Punishment at the Inn --; title: Beauty --; title: The Castle and the Great Hall --; title: The Prince's Bed Chamber --; title: Prince Alexi --; title: Prince Alexi and Felix --; title: The Slaves' Hall --; title: The Training Hall --; title: The Hall of Punishments --; title: Duties in the Prince's Chamber --; title: Serving Maid --; title: The Bridle Path --; title: The Queen's Chamber --; title: Lady Juliana in the Queen's Chamber --; title: With Prince Alexi --; title: Prince Alexi Tells of His Capture and Enslavement --; title: Prince Alexi's Education Continues --; title: The Village.