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a b Ziv, Amalia (Spring 1994). "The Pervert's Progress: An Analysis of Story of O and the Beauty trilogy". Feminist Review. Sage Publications, Inc. (46): 61–75. doi: 10.2307/1395419. ISSN 0141-7789. JSTOR 1395419. Professor Linda Badley of Middle Tennessee State University wrote in her 1996 book Writing Horror and the Body on the trilogy, that rewriting the myth of Sleeping Beauty as sadomasochistic fantasies enabled Anne Rice to explore "liminal areas of experience that could not be articulated in conventional literature, extant pornography, or politically correct discourse". [19] Television adaptation [ edit ] The Sleeping Beauty Quartet is a series of four novels written by American author Anne Rice under the pseudonym of A. N. Roquelaure. The quartet comprises The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, Beauty's Release, and Beauty's Kingdom, first published individually in 1983, 1984, 1985, and 2015, respectively, in the United States. They are erotic BDSM novels set in a medieval fantasy world, loosely based on the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. The novels describe explicit sexual adventures of the female protagonist Beauty and the male characters Alexi, Tristan, and Laurent, featuring both maledom and femdom scenarios amid vivid imageries of bisexuality, homosexuality, ephebophilia, and pony play. [1] There is no evidence that Sleeping Beauty is based on a true story, though many have speculated about possible influences from real-life fairy tales and myths. Twenty years after the events of Beauty's Release, Beauty and Laurent take over the throne following the death of Queen Eleanor and strive to continue the sensual surrender legacy of the kingdom, albeit now in a state of voluntary servitude.

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A fourth book in the series, Beauty's Kingdom, was published in April 2015. [9] Plot [ edit ] The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty [ edit ] Her pseudonym granted her the creative freedom that she needed. Only in the 1990s did she come out as the book’s author. SummaryShe also had co-slaves who were princesses and princes sent by the kingdom to their parents in the form of tributes. In their training years, they are trained to perform nonconsensual sex and become submissive and obedient sexual property. At times, they are also humiliated publicly.

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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. In the first book of the series, Anne Rice (author of Beauty's Kingdom ), writing as A.N. Roquelaure, retells the Beauty story and 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. Readers of Fifty Shades of Grey will indulge in Rice’s deft storytelling and imaginative eroticism, a sure-to-be classic for years to come. Anne Rice, also known as A. N. Roquelaure, is an American author best known for her bestselling novel The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty.The other novels in the series other than The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty are Beauty’s Punishment, Beauty’s Release, and Beauty’s Kingdom. Hoppenstand, Gary; Browne, Ray B. (1996). The Gothic World of Anne Rice. Popular Press. p. 23. ISBN 0-87972-708-X. As happens with fairy tales, Beauty is fast asleep in the novel’s first chapter when a prince in shining armor comes and awakens her. However, there is a plot twist. Beauty falls in live, because she's in love, and because she's a natural submissive who is turned on by everything being done to her, but eventually she gets a little rebellious. Not because she's been stripped from her home and family and forced to submit, but because the castle life is too tame for her, she wants harsher treatment which leads to the sequel.... The novel reflects the fantasy genre and set where BDSM is the usual way of life. So, it is far from evocating realism.

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As far as the novel’s writing style is concerned, there are many criticisms. According to some, the style is a little archaic making the novel look older than it is. However, the style is very flowery and pretty. I first read this when I was 16. It was the first erotica I'd ever read, and definitely the first flat out kink book I'd ever read. The primary kink focus in the series is spanking, which I also appreciate since I tend to find whippings and such a little hard core for reading. Amy Brenneman read The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty. Elizabeth Montgomery read Beauty’s Punishment. Michael Diamond played Tristan’s role. She is a prolific writer who has published numerous other novels and works of non-fiction, including The Vampire Chronicles series, which chronicles the life of a vampire named Lestat. Rice was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and spent much of her early life traveling the world with her diplomat father.

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most frequently challenged books: 1990–1999". American Library Association. Archived from the original on January 12, 2012 . Retrieved October 12, 2010. You might ask why there was necessary to use a pseudonym for writing a novel that was a fairy tale. Well, as we all know, living in a male-dominated heteronormative society can be difficult for those who do not identify with either. Also, writing erotic novels by a female writer was an unacceptable deed. Beauty is, of course, Sleeping Beauty and her awakening by the prince is pretty much rape, which is how the original story was told anyway. Once Beauty is woken she's told that her whole kingdom is now ruled by his family, and that he's taking her as a slave. So much of this is also nonconsensual. Her parents agree to her going, and reveal that they both served a term as slaves and felt the better for it, but Beauty herself is given no choice. (*But that's okay because she's in love with the prince.) In the first chapter of the story, Beauty is awakened from her hundred-year sleep by the Prince, not with a kiss, but through copulation, initiating her into a Satyricon-like world of sexual adventures. After stripping her naked he takes her to his kingdom, ruled by his mother Queen Eleanor, where Beauty is trained as a slave and a plaything. The rest of the naked slaves, dozens of them, in the Queen's castle are princes and princesses sent by their royal parents from the surrounding kingdoms as tributes. In this castle they spend several years learning to become obedient and submissive sexual property, accepting being spanked and forced to have sex with nobles and slaves of both sexes, being publicly displayed and humiliated, and crawling around on their hands and knees like animals until they return to their own lands "being enhanced in wisdom." The moral of Alexi's story notwithstanding, Beauty willfully disobeys, and the book closes with her being sentenced to brutal slavery in the neighboring village while her master weeps.

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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. In the first book of the trilogy, Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquelaure, retells the Beauty story and 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. Readers of Fifty Shades of Grey will indulge in Rice’s deft storytelling and imaginative eroticism, a sure-to-be classic for years to come. 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. Smith, Jennifer (1996). Anne Rice: A Critical Companion. Greenwood Press. p. 5. ISBN 0-313-29612-X. Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien) was a best-selling American author of gothic, supernatural, historical, erotica, and later religious themed books. Best known for The Vampire Chronicles, her prevailing thematic focus is on love, death, immortality, existentialism, and the human condition. She was married to poet Stan Rice for 41 years until his death in 2002. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history.

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The next day, after having made Tristan march through the crowded streets, which included a short but intense meeting with the Captain of the Guard, Nicholas asks Tristan a series of questions as to what makes a strong, highborn prince obey with such a complete submission. Tristan answers, after some hesitation, that he loves anyone who punishes him no matter how crude or lowly they are and desires the loss of his self amid all the punishments, eventually "becoming" the punishments himself. Nicholas is moved by the answer and, after a frantic intercourse, confesses to him that he is in love with Tristan. She is a highly respected author who has won numerous awards for her writing, including the Bram Stoker Award for lifetime achievement in horror literature. Despite her many literary accomplishments, Rice is perhaps best known for The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty book, which remains one of her most popular and controversial novels.