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Sleeping Beauties (Moore Novel)
''Sleeping Beauty'' is a classic fairy tale. Sleeping Beauty may also refer to: Film * The Sleeping Beauty (1930 film), ''The Sleeping Beauty'' (1930 film), a Soviet film directed by Georgi Vasilyev and Sergei Vasilyev * The Sleeping Beauty (1935 film), ''The Sleeping Beauty'' (1935 film), an American cartoon in the Puppetoon series by George Pal, included in ''The Puppetoon Movie'' * Sleeping Beauty (1942 film), ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1942 film), an Italian film * Sleeping Beauty (1959 film), ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1959 film), an American animated film from Walt Disney Pictures ** Aurora (Disney), the title character of the Disney film ** Sleeping Beauty (franchise), ''Sleeping Beauty'' (franchise), a Disney media franchise that began in 1959 with the release of ''Sleeping Beauty'' * Sleeping Beauty (1955 film), ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1955 film), a 1955 West German film directed by Fritz Genschow * Sleeping Beauty (1973 film), ''Sleeping Beauty'' (1973 film) or ''Some Call It Loving'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleeping Beauty
"Sleeping Beauty" (, or ''The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood''; , or ''Little Briar Rose''), also titled in English as ''The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods'', is a fairy tale about a princess curse, cursed by an evil fairy to suspended animation in fiction, sleep for a hundred years before being awakened by a handsome prince. A good fairy, knowing the princess would be frightened if alone when she wakes, uses her wand to put every living person and animal in the palace and forest asleep, to awaken when the princess does. The earliest known version of the tale is found in the French language, French narrative ''Perceforest'', written between 1330 and 1344. Another was the Catalan language, Catalan poem ''Frayre de Joy e Sor de Paser''. Giambattista Basile wrote another, "Sun, Moon, and Talia" for his collection ''Pentamerone'', published posthumously in 1634–36 and adapted by Charles Perrault in ''Histoires ou contes du temps passé'' in 1697. The version collected and printed by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Day-Dream
''The Day-Dream'' is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson that was published in 1842. It was an expanded version of his 1830 poem ''The Sleeping Beauty''. It was further altered in 1848 for a dramatic performance for a private gathering with Tennyson starring as the Prince. "The Day-Dream" discusses the nature of sleeping and of dreaming, especially in relation to individuals that would want to escape from reality. The poem also compares the act of poetry with dreaming and asserts that the two are the same. Background Tennyson originally published "The Sleeping Beauty" in his 1830 collection of poems.Hill 1971 p. 544 In 1833, Tennyson's close friend Arthur Hallam died. The death greatly affected both Tennyson and his sister Emily, and he kept away from society as he dealt with the pain. By mid-summer 1834, they slowly began to participate together in social events once again. At one occasion, Tennyson, Emily, and their sister Mary were invited to visit friends at Dorking and then tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Mass
Wendy Mass (born April 22, 1967) is an American author of young adult novels and children's books. Her 2003 novel, '' A Mango-Shaped Space'' won the American Library Association (ALA) Schneider Family Book Award for Middle School in 2004. Her other notable works include: '' 11 Birthdays'', '' A Mango-Shaped Space'' and '' Every Soul a Star''. Mass's novel '' Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life'' was adapted into a feature film in 2011. Early life Born in Livingston, New Jersey, Mass's favorite subjects in school were reading and science. Wendy worked at town libraries and bookstores. As a child she would compete with friends to see who could read the most books; this helped develop her writing skills. Her first career vision was to be an astronaut. Mass's first story, co-written by her two siblings, starred a cat that somehow turned into a goat and destroyed her neighborhood. In high school, Mass worked at a local bookstore and continued to hone her writing skills. She to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Margolin
Phillip Margolin (born 1944) is an American writer of legal thrillers. Biography Margolin was born in New York City in 1944. After receiving a B.A. in Government in 1965, from American University in Washington, D.C., he worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia until 1967. He graduated from the New York University School of Law in 1970, and has worked for 25 years as a criminal defense attorney, an occupation of choice inspired by the ''Perry Mason'' books. He started to work in 1970 at the Oregon Court of Appeals. He published his first story, a short story titled "The Girl in the Yellow Bikini", in 1974, and became a full-time writer in 1996. He has written 12 books as of January 2007. He lists as his favourite writer Joseph Conrad, and among his favourite books ''War and Peace'' by Leo Tolstoy and ''Stone City'' by Mitchell Smith. Philip Margolin was married to Doreen Stamm in 1968. They had two children, Ami and Daniel. Doreen, also an attorney, died from cancer in Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narinder Dhami
Narendra Singh Dhami is a Nepalese entrepreneur and business strategist, best known as the Founder and CEO of Dhami Global, a multinational business group with ventures spanning various industries. Early life Dhami's father was an Indian immigrant from the Punjab who arrived in the UK in 1954, and her mother is English.Narinder Dhami at randomhouse.com (accessed 25 March 2003) She grew up in a multi-cultural environment, with Asian Indian and western cultures both major influences in her life, and was educated at Wolverhampton Girls' High School and then |
Judith Ivory
Judith Ivory is the pen name of Judy Cuevas, a best-selling American author of historical romance novels. Biography As a child, Judith Ivory liked to gather the other neighborhood children together and tell them stories. She carried a notebook with her and would often jot down poems, essays, and short stories. In her first semester at the University of Florida, Ivory's English professor invited her to join the invitational honors program based on writing ability and told her to consider a career as an author. While she enjoyed the honors program, Ivory decided that she needed a backup plan. She earned an undergraduate degree in applied mathematics and a master's degree in theoretical mathematics, and also completed post-graduate work in English at Cambridge University. She taught math at the junior high and high school level before accepting a position as a professor at the University of Miami. She began her writing career in earnest when her children were toddlers. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mavis Cheek
Mavis Mary Cheek (née Wilson, 25 February 1948 – 14 June 2023) was an English novelist. She was the author of fifteen novels, several of which have been translated into other languages. Cheeks' debut novel ''Pause Between Acts'' won the 1988 She/John Menzies First Novel Prize. Life and career Cheek was born on 25 February 1948, in Wimbledon, now part of London. Her Scottish father, who was in the Royal Army Medical Corps, had a second family in another area of London. Cheek met him only once, when she was seven. When he abandoned them, her mother began working in a factory to support herself, her own mother and her daughter. Cheek felt she was unloved by her grandmother and her mother, and said that her feeling of being an outcast spurred her to become an observer in life. Cheek was educated in church schools until the age of eleven when she failed her eleven-plus examination and was placed in the B stream of her girls' secondary modern school in Raynes Park. They did not do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Donnelly
Jane Donnelly is a British writer. During period of 1965 to 2000, she wrote more than 60 romance novels from Mills & Boon. Her novels are characterized as "happy escapist reading". Bibliography Single novels *''Don't Look Back'' (1965) *''A Man Apart'' (1968) *''Don't Walk Alone'' (1968) *''This Hell Called Love'' (1969) *''Shadows from the Sea'' (1969) *''Whispering Ones'' (1969) *''Stranger in the Dark'' (1969) *''Take the Far Dream'' (1970) *''Man in the Next Room'' (1970) *''Never Turn Back'' (1970) *''Half Way to the Stars'' (1971) *''Mill in the Meadow'' (1972) *''Stranger Came'' (1972) *''The Long Shadow'' (1973) *''Rocks Under Shining Water'' (1973) *''Man Called Mallory'' (1974) *''Collision Course'' (1975) *''The Man Outside'' (1975) *''Ride Out the Storm'' (1975) *''Dark Pursuer'' (1976) *''Silver Cage'' (1976) *''The Intruder'' (1976) *''Four Weeks in Winter'' (1977) *''Dear Caliban'' (1977) *''Touched by Fire'' (1977) *''Black Hunter'' (1978) *''Love for a Stranger' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susanna Moore
Susanna Moore (born December 9, 1945) is an American writer and teacher. Born in Pennsylvania but raised in Hawaii, Moore worked as a model and script reader in Los Angeles and New York City before beginning her career as a writer. Her first novel, ''My Old Sweetheart'', published in 1982, earned a PEN Hemingway nomination, and won the Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She followed this with ''The Whiteness of Bones'' in 1989, and her third novel, ''Sleeping Beauties'', in 1993. All three of these novels were set in Hawaii and charted dysfunctional family relationships. Moore gained particular critical notice for her fourth novel, '' In the Cut'' (1995), which marked a departure from her previous works in both setting and content, concerning a New York City teacher who has a sexual affair with a detective investigating violent murders and dismemberments in her neighborhood. It was adapted into a 2003 feature film of the same name by director ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Michael
Judith Michael is the pseudonym of the husband-and-wife writing team of Judith Barnard (born 1934) and Michael Fain (born 1937). Barnard has worked as a journalist, educational film writer, biographer and editor. She received a B.A. from Ohio State University and an M.A. from Northwestern University. Under her own name, she wrote the novel ''The Past and Present of Solomon Sorge'' (1967). Fain has worked as an engineer for NASA, was president of an electronics company in Canada, and published numerous scientific articles under his own name. Jointly, under their two names, Barnard and Fain published articles on marriage and the family in ''Redbook'', ''Reader's Digest'', and ''Ladies' Home Journal ''Ladies' Home Journal'' was an American magazine that ran until 2016 and was last published by the Meredith Corporation. It was first published on February 16, 1883, and eventually became one of the leading women's magazines of the 20th centur ...'', among others. As Judith Michael, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sleeping Beauty Quartet
''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, respectively, 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 (known for her role in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleeping Beauty (novel)
''Sleeping Beauty'' is a 1973 novel by Ross Macdonald. Plot Private eye Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands - including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of nembutal, a six figure ransom and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach. Adaptation KCRW KCRW (89.9 FM broadcasting, FM) is an NPR member station broadcasting from the campus of Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, where the station is licensed. KCRW airs original news and music programming in addition to programming ... adapted ''Sleeping Beauty'' for a radio play in 1996. References 1973 American novels Lew Archer (series) Novels by Ross Macdonald Alfred A. Knopf books 1973 Canadian novels {{Canada-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
