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Of Princes & Beauties: Erotic Fairy Tales for Adults [Paperback]

Cecilia Tan (Editor), Cecilia Tan (Editor) (Author)
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Book Description

September 1995
This ribald collection of new twists on some old myths mixes gay and straight themes and turns fairy tale convention inside out. From a gay retelling of Beauty and the Beast to a sideways Cinderella story where the right 'fit' is not a shoe, from the story of who really saved the Frog Prince to the tale of a charmed phallus, these tales go beyond Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty series to new erotic and romantic territories.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 95 pages
  • Publisher: Circlet Pr (September 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1885865031
  • ISBN-13: 978-1885865038
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,518,670 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I write about my passions, which include baseball, erotica, gourmet food, martial arts, and travel. I write fantasy, science fiction, erotic fiction, paranormal romance, and anything else that stimulates my imagination.

In the erotica field, I've been published everywhere from Ms. magazine to Penthouse, and I'm in many, many anthologies and the Best American Erotica series. Susie Bright called me "simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature." Erotic books I've authored include Black Feathers, White Flames, The Velderet, Mind Games, The Hot Streak, and The Siren and the Sword (Magic University, Book One). I've also edited many anthologies including Women of the Bite, Cowboy Lover, Sex In The System, Wicked Pleasures, SM Visions, for many different publishers, and many many books and ebooks for the independent publishing house I founded, Circlet Press. Those include Best Fantastic Erotica, Erotic Fantastic, Like an Animal, Like Crimson Droplets, and many others, both for Kindle and in paperback.

In science fiction/fantasy I have been published in Asimov's magazine, Strange Horizons, Absolute Magnitude, and many other places.

In baseball, I am the editor of the Maple Street Press YANKEES ANNUAL, author of The 50 Greatest Yankee Games, co-author of 50 Greatest Red Sox Games, the co-editor of THE FENWAY PROJECT, and co-editor of '75: The Red Sox Team That Saved Baseball. I write features for Yankees magazine and other publications. I have a web site of baseball essays, called Why I Like Baseball, at http://whyilikebaseball.com.

You can find out way more about me and my obsessions at www.ceciliatan.com

 

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1.0 out of 5 stars Really disappointing, July 22, 2009
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This review is from: Of Princes & Beauties: Erotic Fairy Tales for Adults (Paperback)
Perhaps it's just me (and my wife) but this series of short stories just didn't cut the mustard. I saw what the authors were trying to do, I just don't think they did a very good job ... save for one story.

And I have trouble giving a good rating or review to a work of art if the characters in it aren't ones I care about ... and (save one story) I didn't care a fig about any of these.

Here's a piece by piece run down:

*The Frog Prince by David Laurents - Opening poem. I got the symbolism. Kind of cute.
*Stone Kiss by Gary Bowen - A fairly in-depth look at the psyche of a budding ruthless tyrant. Interesting character study but disturbing to read.
*Someday My Prince Will Come by Evan Hollander - Standard, sophomoric silliness. Sounds like it was written by a 19 year old college boy.
*The Frog Prince by Wanda Wolfe - A rather boring, step-by-step, how-to for gay men fresh out of the closet.
*Dictation by E.R. Stewart - Hard to describe. The only part of this that I thought had any originality was the teleportation scene. Other than that; meh.
*Beauty and the Beast by Wanda Wolfe - This is the "one story" I alluded to earlier. I found the characters human and I cared for them. Beyond that, a fairly standard variation on the theme where the ultimate love seems to be expressed via sexuality. Since I can't give an item 1/2 a star, this story earned the 1 star I've given this book.

In general, my thoughts while reading these stories were generally; "Man, I'm reading about someone having an orgasm and I'm NOT having an orgasm."

If you're reading to find some good descriptions of sex, this is your book. (My wife and I were expecting more.) Otherwise, pass it by.
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7 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Fun retelling of old themes, March 10, 1999
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This review is from: Of Princes & Beauties: Erotic Fairy Tales for Adults (Paperback)
Although not breaking any new ground in the fantasy genre, this short collection of stories makes for a fun and sometimes romantic read. The first fiction efforts by Wand Wolfe particularly capture the spirit of the traditional fairy tale ("Frong Prince" and "Beauty and the Beast").

Editor Cecilia Tan has put together a nice blend of stories that encourages me to read more of her anthologies.

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