The Sleeping Beauty Quartet · Book 2
Beauty's Punishment
- Published
- 1 January 1984
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780751540901
- Type
- novel
About this book
Released in 1984, Beauty's Punishment sits between The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty and Beauty's Release in the Sleeping Beauty Quartet reading order. It continues Beauty's escalating education in desire, humiliation and power, part of the continuous trilogy Anne Rice wrote under the pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure across 1983-1985.
Its place in The Sleeping Beauty Quartet
Beauty's Punishment is book 2 in the The Sleeping Beauty Quartet series. It follows The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty. It is followed by Beauty's Release. See the full The Sleeping Beauty Quartet reading order.
Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty books retell the fairy tale as an explicit BDSM erotic fantasy: a prince wakes the sleeping princess not with a kiss but by claiming her as a captive, and carries her off to a kingdom where the nobility openly practice ritualized submission and discipline. Written in ornate, deliberately old-fashioned prose that plays the fairy-tale register straight even as the content is anything but childlike, the first three volumes follow Beauty from her initial captivity through an escalating…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780751540901