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Before E.L. James and Sylvia Day's , there was Anne Rices best seller 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), 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 will indulge in Rices deft storytelling and imaginative eroticism, a sure-to-be classic for years to come.

Praise for :

"Articulate, baroque, and fashionably pornographic." Playboy"Something very special . . . at once so light and yet so haunting." The Advocate