Screen LibraryBriar rose and Spanking the maid /
These two novellas by the groundbreaking, fearless, and immeasurably influential Robert Coover are dirty, funny and brilliant. In Briar Rose a sleeping beauty is trapped in an enchantment for a hundred years, dreaming of stories in which someone like her wakes up disappointed, or becomes a mother, o...
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Penguin Books,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Penguin modern classics
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These two novellas by the groundbreaking, fearless, and immeasurably influential Robert Coover are dirty, funny and brilliant. In Briar Rose a sleeping beauty is trapped in an enchantment for a hundred years, dreaming of stories in which someone like her wakes up disappointed, or becomes a mother, or is stripped and defiled. And, as she dreams, outside, failed princes die and hang their remains on the thorns of a briar hedge. In Spanking the Maid a maid and her master are each committed to their own hard service: she, attempting to perform her simple duties without error; he, supplying punis |
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Briar rose originally published: 1996. Spanking the maid originally published: 1982. |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 155 pages ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780141192994 (paperback) : 0141192992 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | PS3553 |
| CLC: | I712.45 |
| Call Number: | I712.45/C779-6 |