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''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 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. In 1994, the abridged audio versions of the first three books were published in cassette form. ''The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty'' was read by actress Amy Brenneman. ''Beauty's Punishment'' was read by Elizabeth Montgomery, well known for her role in the ABC situation comedy ''Bewitched'', as Beauty and Michael Diamond as Tristan, and ''Beauty's Release'' was by Montgomery with actor Christian Keiber reading as Laurent. A compact disc version of the audiobooks was read by Genviere Bevier and Winthrop Eliot. == Background == After the success of ''Interview with the Vampire'' (1976), Anne Rice wrote two extensively researched historical novels, ''The Feast of All Saints'' (1979) and ''Cry to Heaven'' (1982). Neither of them gave her the critical acclaim or the commercial success of her first novel; the main complaints about ''The Feast of All Saints'' were that it was too heavy and dense to read easily, and most of the reviews for ''Cry to Heaven'' were so savagely negative that Rice felt devastated. She had been thinking about a story set during the time of Oscar Wilde for the next novel, but decided to abandon it and go back to the erotic writing she had explored in the 1960s. Her idea was "to create a book where you didn't have to mark the hot pages" and "to take away everything extraneous, as much as could be done in a narrative".〔 To gain a creative freedom for the new work, Rice adopted the ''nom de plume'' A.N. Roquelaure from the French word ''Roquelaure'', referring to a cloak worn by men in the 18th-century Europe.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.thefreedictionary.com/roquelaure )〕 Rice came out as the author of the trilogy only sometime during the 1990s. The trilogy was written in the 1980s when many feminists denounced pornography as violation of women's rights, but Rice firmly believed that women should have the freedom to read and write whatever they pleased, and considered the trilogy her political statement. A fourth book in the series, ''Beauty's Kingdom'', was published in April 2015.〔(New erotica coming from A.N. Roquelaure, aka Anne Rice )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Sleeping Beauty Quartet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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