The way that jane yolen is able to take the story of the holocaust and intertwine it with the fairy tale of briar rose is stunning the book leaves you on the edge of your seat and the ending leaves you breathless. In briar rose jane yolen retells the story of sleeping beauty with the holocaust as its backdrop the tale is at once heartbreaking and ultimately heartwarming the prince is a most unusual hero and many of us who are family historians and work with geneaology will identify with rebeccas quest to discover the truth behind her. Briar rose is a young adult novel written by american author jane yolen published in 1992 incorporating elements of sleeping beauty it was published as part of the fairy tale series of novels compiled by terri windling. 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 punishment by rod, belt, hairbrush, whip, cane and slipper when she inevitably fails.īriar rose by jane yolen is a powerful novel about the holocaust set in the present day with flashbacks to the holocaust it is an unforgettable story yolen skillfully weaves gemmas recounting of the briar rose story with what really happened and it is heartbreaking and moving. And, as she dreams, outside, failed princes die and hang their remains on the thorns of a briar hedge. 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. Author by: Robert Coover Language: en Publisher by: Penguin UK Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 18 Total Download: 613 File Size: 49,8 Mb Description: These two novellas by the groundbreaking, fearless, and immeasurably influential Robert Coover are dirty, funny and brilliant.
Briar Rose is not intended for readers under the age of 18.
This medieval, adult fairy tale contains fairy godmothers, princes, princesses, kings, and queens, along with some not so nice fairy tale villains.