Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty:
Anne Rice writing as A. N. Roquelaure. In the traditional folk tale "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. 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.
Beauty's Punishment:
This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of Anne Rice's elegantly written volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away from the Satyricon-like world of the castle. Once again Rice's fabulous tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most primal and well-hidden desires of the human heart.

Beauty's Release:
In the final volume of Anne Rice's deliciously tantalizing erotic trilogy, Beauty's adventures on the dark side of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem. In Beauty's Release, Anne Rice makes the forbidden side of passion a doorway into the hidden regions of the psyche and the heart.

Anne penned erotica under the pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure fashioned the ultimate subversion of a beloved fairy tale. Awakened not by a kiss but by sexual initiation, her Sleeping Beauty becomes a sado-masochistic sex slave. Her self‐proclaimed ‘Disneyland of S & M’ is meant to be a psychological portrait of dominance and submission, sexuality and spirituality.

 

The Lovely and talented Elizabeth Montgomery from Bewitched recited the erotic Sleeping Beauty trilogy on audio tape.