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Sleeping Beauty Trilogy: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, Beauty's Release

by Anne Rice

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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.

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"Articulate, baroque, and fashionably pornographic." Playboy

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A beautifully designed boxed set of erotica by the bestselling author. Rice's enormously successful "Beauty" books are based very loosely on the Sleeping Beauty tale, and explore just about every sexually explicit fantasy imaginable. "Articulate, baroque, and fashionably pornographic".--Playboy.

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'Celebrate the daring gifts of Anne Rice, writing as A. N. Roquelaure, with this beautifully repackaged boxed set of the three erotic novels in her acclaimed Sleeping Beauty trilogy.'
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'Anne Rice is the author of many bestselling books, and is perhaps best known for her incredibly successful Vampire Chronicles.'
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LadyBelle85, April 19, 2008 (view all comments by LadyBelle85)
I can't get enough of the Sleeping Beauty books. Her struggle as a human to become someone with no will, to learn to be perfect for another, it's intoxicating. For those in the BDSM world it's the perfect fantasy! She learns to cope with one struggle only to get thrown into another completely different situation. She must continue to learn about herself, and her seemingly nonexistent limits. Sometimes she gets put in these situations of her own free will, sometimes not. These books are completely enthralling!
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780452156616
Subtitle:
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty/Beauty's Punishment/Beauty's Release
Author:
Rice, Anne
Author:
Roquelaure, A. N.
Publisher:
Plume Books
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Erotica
Subject:
Erotica - General
Subject:
General Fiction
Copyright:
1999
Publication Date:
May 1999
Binding:
Boxed Set
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Dimensions:
8.31x4.98x2.44 in. 1.47 lbs.
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