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Beauty's Punishment

by A.N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice

Beauty is sold into erotic slavery and forced to obey the orders of the Captain and Mistress Lockley.

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Publisher Description

The delicious and erotically charged sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, from the author of Beauty's Kingdom. 

This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of Anne Rice's (writing as A.N. Roquelaure) elegantly written volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Now 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. Sold at auction, she will soon experience the tantalizing punishments of "the village," as her education in love, cruelty, dominance, submission, and tenderness is turned over to the brazenly handsome Captain of the Guard. And once again Rice's fabulous tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most primal and well-hidden desires of the human heart. Preceding the visceral eroticism of E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day's Bared to You, and even more haunting than her own novel Belinda, this second installment in the Sleeping Beauty series is not to be missed.

Author Biography

Anne Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941. She is the author of many bestselling novels, including the widely successful Vampire Chronicles. Her first novel, Interview with the Vampire, was made into a film in 1994 starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Her other books include the Mayfair Witches series, the novels The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Violin, Angel Time, the Sleeping Beauty trilogy, and most recently, The Wolf Gift. She passed away in 2021.

Review

PRAISE FOR ANNE RICE:

"Anne Rice has what might best be described as a Gothic imagination crossed with a campy taste for the decadent and the bizarre." -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

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PRAISE FOR ANNE RICE: "Anne Rice has what might best be described as a Gothic imagination crossed with a campy taste for the decadent and the bizarre." - - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Author Comments

PREFACE I''ve always loved the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, and found something erotic at its core. The Prince awakens Beauty with a kiss. And I thought, all right, what if he brought a kind of liberation, an induction into a world of bizarre yet irresistible delights? It has to be remembered that within the frame of a sadomasochistic fantasy like the Beauty trilogy, the readers are invited to identify with and enjoy the predicament of the slaves. The books aren''t about literal cruelty; they''re about surrender, the fun of imagining you have no choice but to enjoy sex. Beauty''s slavery is delicious, sensuous, abandoned, and ultimately liberating. This is all part of the framework. And it seemed to work exquisitely with the old fairy tale. And of course the fairy tale removes us from everyday life; it removes us from the intrusion of garish headlines, literal violence, and all the ugliness of crime. We go into a gilded dream here, luscious and engulfing, in which we''re free to imagine all sorts of things--a fairy-tale world indeed. As Anne Rice, I''m known for certain kinds of novels; the Roquelaure books retain the name Roquelaure (even with my name added) to indicate that this is something "different." If Anne Rice is one kind of savory dish, well this is another entirely. And some might find it far too spicy for their taste. I don''t like the idea of confusing or disappointing readers, so the pen name helps with that. Of course, there are many people who have read all my work, including the Roquelaure novels, and they see me as a multifaceted writer. But the Roquelaure material is erotica, without reservation, and it needs that pen name on the label, so to speak. The pen name says: Anne Rice is doing something very different here. I felt I needed the anonymity of the pen name to write freely, to pursue an authentic erotica without being inhibited or self-conscious. And it worked wonders to imagine myself "cloaked" by the name Roquelaure, which is a kind of French cloak--named after the Frenchman who popularized it. My father was still living then and I didn''t want him to know about the books either. In fact, there were lots of friends and relatives whom I didn''t want to worry about as I developed the writing. There was quite a bit of exposure involved in writing such graphic sexual fantasies. It was frightening now and then, and it was thrilling. Eventually, I told my father about the books, asking him not to read them, and I did put my name on them. I adjusted completely to people knowing I''d written them. But only after I''d finished with the trilogy--as I recall. A pen name enables you not only to cloak what you are doing from friends and family; it gives you a new freedom to do something you would not do as yourself. I have thought of writing some new erotica, and I must confess I imagined using a new pen name for it. I don''t know whether I''ll pursue it, but I do find the freedom of the pen name attractive. When the Sleeping Beauty Trilogy books were first published, they were underground books. They had the backing of a major mainstream publisher, yes, but the publication, though dignified and beautiful, was relatively quiet. But different readers embraced the books almost at once. They clearly appealed to young people, and older married people, to gays and straights. And they''ve sold steadily ever since they first appeared. Women come up to me at signings with babies in strollers and giggle and laugh and say, "We love your dirty books." People of all ages, actually, present the books to be signed. Why do I think these particular books have been popular? Two reasons. First, I think it is because they involve no harsh, garish violence at all. They involve game playing, really. No one is burned or cut or hurt. Certainly no one is killed. Indeed the whole sadomasochistic predicament is presented as a glorified game played out in luxurious rooms and with very attractive people, and involving very attractive slaves. There are endless motifs offered for dominance and submission, for surrender and love. It''s like a theme park of dominance and submission, a place to go to enjoy the fantasy of being overpowered by a beautiful man or woman and delightfully compelled to surrender and feel keening pleasure, without the slightest serious harm. I think it''s authentic to the way many who share this kind of fantasy really feel. I think what makes it work for people is the combination of the very graphic and unsparing sexual details mixed with the elegant fairy-tale world. Unfortunately a lot of hackwork pornography is written by those who don''t share the fantasy, and they slip into hideous violence and ugliness, thinking the market wants all that, when the market never really did. Second, this is shamelessly erotic. It pulls no punches at being what it is. It''s excessive and it is erotica. Before these books, a lot of women read what were called "women''s romances" where they had to mark the few "hot pages" in the book. I said, well, look, try this. Maybe this is what you really want, and you don''t have to mark the hot pages because every page is hot. Every page is about sexual fulfillment. Every page is meant to give you pleasure. There are no boring parts. Yet it''s very "romantic." And well, I think this worked. Lots of people enjoy imagining themselves passive, in the hands of a beautiful lover, male or female, who will force them to enjoy themselves. It''s a common idea, and it cuts across gender and class. Men love these sorts of fantasies as much as women. And these books offer all kinds of gender combinations; women dominating men and women; men dominating men and women. The books offer ornate and seductive variations on the themes; and all of it is interwoven in stories with real characters, and again, the emphasis is on a lush, sensuous realm in which all this happens. There are very detailed descriptions of physical interaction and response; but the fairy-tale spell is sustained. I also went all the way with exploring the mind-set of sadomasochism as I saw it, letting the fantasy characters talk in depth about what they felt and what they enjoyed and what thrilled them as they were humiliated and overwhelmed. I suspect that for some readers, this kind of deep exploration of the mentality of the participants was entirely new. Is this why they appealed to so many, because people want this very combination of elements? Perhaps. I certainly never found the combination of elements I wanted in anyone else''s erotica. So I offered what I could not find; a light touch; elegance; preciseness; a dreamlike kingdom; a dream in which people explore their need to be passive and to "pretend" that someone gorgeous and irresistible is "making" them do it. Psychiatrists have written volumes on the nature of the sadomasochistic fantasy, but when I wrote the trilogy I didn''t know of any fiction that really enabled you to slide in it and "play" the way I wanted to play. So I wrote the books I couldn''t find. I never thought a book as eccentric as Interview with the Vampire would have mass appeal. I only knew that I wanted to "be with the vampire" in the story, tell it from his point of view. I wanted to be inside his head and heart and reveal his voice and his pain. Now as it turned out, other people were exploring this same kind of thing--the backstory of the villain, the monster, or the comic book hero and heroine who''d always been described from a distance or in brittle form. People wanted to explore all kinds of super characters and hear their intimate musings. And I began to see more and more of this--movies made in which Superman could bear his soul, and Lois Lane could really talk about what it meant to love him. The demand for such romantic fantasies grew and grew. But did I have any idea that would happen? No. I wrote what I wanted to read. Well, the same thing is true with the Beauty books. I didn''t know whether that many other people had the fantasies. After all, we didn''t talk much about them. Only a small elite knew about the mysterious Story of O . But I knew I had these fantasies, and I wanted to share them, and I felt an overwhelming desire to do them "right." I didn''t want to compromise, water them down, or shrink from the most humiliating detail. I wanted to really delve into intense sensuous pleasure but put a gilded frame around a safe place for the reader from which he or she could go and come with ease. Of course these books have from time to time been banned. I never expected a library to stock the Beauty trilogy. I know that many libraries respond to community standards, and I just never thought about it much at all. I did notice and I couldn''t help notice that the books sold well and steadily, and that at every signing I gave, people brought them to be signed. Recently, I''ve signed as many copies of the Beauty books as I have of any other book I''ve written. So I don''t worry too much about being banned. I''ve always shocked people. Years ago, I published a novel about the eighteenth-century castrati opera singers, titled Cry to Heaven . Someone brought a copy back to a bookstore in Stockton, California, and demanded his money back. "This is pornography," he said. There are always some people objecting to what I do. I''m grateful the Beauty books have been embraced and sustained over the years. As a feminist, I''m very much supportive of equal rights for women in all walks of life. And that includes for me the right of every woman to write out her sexual fantasies and to read books filled with sexual fantasies that she enjoys. Men have always enjoyed all kinds of pornography. How can it be wrong for women to have the same right? We''re sexual beings! And fantasy is where we can do the things we can''t do in ordinary life. A woman has a right to i

Excerpt from Book

Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page PREFACE THE PUNISHED BEAUTY AND TRISTAN THE AUCTION IN THE MARKETPLACE BEAUTY ON THE BLOCK LESSONS FROM MISTRESS LOCKLEY PRINCE ROGER''S STRANGE LITTLE STORY THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD THE PLACE OF PUBLIC PUNISHMENT TRISTAN IN THE HOUSE OF NICOLAS, THE QUEEN''S CHRONICLER A SPLENDID EQUIPAGE THE FARM AND THE STABLE SOLDIERS'' NIGHT AT THE INN GRAND ENTERTAINMENT NICOLAS''S BEDCHAMBER TRISTAN''S SOUL FURTHER REVEALED MISTRESS LOCKLEY''S DISCIPLINE CONVERSATION WITH PRINCE RICHARD PUBLIC TENTS MISTRESS LOCKLEY''S AFFECTIONS SECRETS IN THE INNER CHAMBER UNDER THE STARS REVELATIONS AND MYSTERIES PENITENTIAL PROCESSION TRISTAN AND BEAUTY DISASTER EXOTIC MERCHANDISE ANOTHER TURN OF THE WHEEL VOLUPTUOUS CAPTIVITY AN EXCITING PREVIEW OF Beauty''s Kingdom THE EROTIC NOVELS OF ANNE RICE WRITING AS A. N. ROQUELAURE The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty Beauty''s Punishment Beauty''s Release Since 1983, A. N. Roquelaure has envisioned (for the uninhibited reader) a hypnotic and seductive adult fairy tale in the Sleeping Beauty novels. Now, the author of this exquisite erotic trilogy reveals her true identity--beckoning the reader into a sensuous world of forbidden dreams and dark-edged desires ... a world in which traditional ideas of submission and dominance and gender preference are thrown to the winds ... a world made irresistibly inviting by the adventurous spirit and imagination of the unrivaled Anne Rice. an erotic novel of discipline, love and surrender, for the enjoyment of men and women PLUME Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Published by Plume, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. Previously published in a Dutton edition. First Plume Printing, November, 1990 First Plume Printing, This Edition, May, 1999 Copyright

Details ISBN0452281431 Author Anne Rice Short Title BEAUTYS PUNISHMENT Language English ISBN-10 0452281431 ISBN-13 9780452281431 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 1999 Residence US Affiliation Anne Rice pen name DOI 10.1604/9780452281431 Series Number 2 Subtitle A Novel Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 1999-05-01 NZ Release Date 1999-05-01 US Release Date 1999-05-01 UK Release Date 1999-05-01 Pages 256 Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc Series A Sleeping Beauty Novel Publication Date 1999-05-01 Imprint New American Library Replaces 9780452266629 Audience General

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  • Condition: Neu
  • ISBN-13: 9780452281431
  • ISBN: 9780452281431
  • Publication Year: 1999
  • Format: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Book Title: Beauty's Punishment: a Novel
  • Item Height: 203mm
  • Author: A. N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice
  • Publisher: Penguin Putnam INC International Concepts
  • Genre: Horror
  • Item Width: 122mm
  • Item Weight: 187g
  • Number of Pages: 256 Pages

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