My friend had told me about this Book thats about Sleeping Beauty, but this one was an Adult Version!! has anyone heard of it??and if so is there a way i can find it online??
2007-05-22 01:07:21 · 4 answers · asked by Aeris_141 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Well, Anne Rice (who wrote all the vampire books) also wrote an erotic trilogy called The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, and Beauty's Release under the pseudonym of A. N. Roquelaure. They are quite 'naughty' though.
2007-05-22 01:13:03 · answer #1 · answered by Bog woppit. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Perrault published La Belle au bois dormant (The Sleeping Beauty) in Paris, in January 1697, as the first of eight stories in a book titled Histoires ou Contes du temps passé. Avec de Moralitez. As with many of his other tales, he owes a great deal to a collection of fairy tales published by the Italian Giambattista Basile sixty years earlier. In the case of The Sleeping Beauty, they both tell variations of the 1528 romance Perceforest and can trace roots in the story of Brynhild in the Volsunga Saga.
The Perceforest story is entitled Histoire de Troylus et de Zellandine. The deities Venus, Lucina and Themis are invited to a feast to honor the birth of the king's daughter, Zellandine. Themis is upset because she is not given a knife like the other guests and thus curses the child. The curse is of an unknown nature so no attempt can be made to mitigate it. A flax splinter causes the young princess to fall to sleep. Many years later Prince Troylus happens upon Zellandine in her tower, and when he can not rouse her he acts in an unrestrained manner with her sleeping body. As a result they have a child.
Giambattista Basile, born in Naples about 1575, was a much traveled poet, soldier and administrator. He died in 1632 while serving as Governor of the Giugliano district near Naples. Some 50 of his tales were published posthumously and became known in the 1674 edition as The Pentamerone. His version of The Sleeping Beauty is tale five from Day Five. In addition The Pentamerone includes original versions of Cinderella, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast and Puss in Boots.
In Basile's version, a great king commands the wise men of his country to confer about the destiny of his daughter, Talia. They conclude she will meet her peril from a splinter of flax. The king therefore bans flax from his castle. However, when the young princess sees an old woman spinning, she is intrigued as she has never seen such a thing before. On touching the yarn she gets a splinter of flax under her nail and falls dead. Grief stricken, her father places her in a velvet chair, locks her in the castle and abandons it. An unspecified time later, another king who is already married to another woman is out hunting. He comes upon the sleeping princess, Talia. However much he tries, she will not awaken and so, in Basile's words, he "plucked from her the fruits of love," thus fathering two children
you see fairy tales were origionally intended for adult consumption so many of the first versions are adult versions. as for purchasing them, perhaps using the info ive given here, ebay, amazon or another online bookseller might have copies available I'm not sure.
2007-05-22 01:24:13 · answer #2 · answered by colts_pet_lioness 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may be referring to 'Sleeping Cutie' by British author Sara Caspian. I've read it and it is fab!
It's an adult, satirical, very fun version of 'Sleeping Beauty'.
2007-05-22 02:50:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
see this question
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061126173033AAD0uzD
2007-05-22 01:10:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋