The Sleeping Beauty Quartet · Book 1
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
- Published
- 1 January 1983
- Pages
- 280
- ISBN-13
- 9780452281424
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty is the shortest book in The Sleeping Beauty Quartet at 280 pages, published in 1983 under the pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure, when explicit erotica by a literary novelist under her own name would have been commercially unthinkable. It retells the fairy tale as an explicit BDSM erotic fantasy, opening with the prince claiming the princess as a captive rather than waking her with a kiss.
Its place in The Sleeping Beauty Quartet
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty is book 1 in the The Sleeping Beauty Quartet series. It is followed by Beauty's Punishment. 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 9780452281424