The Princess and the Pauper: An Erotic Fairy Tale [Hardcover]

Gwen Davis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1989

This modern fairy tale offers variations on Mark Twain's entertaining classic of switched identities. It involves Princess Darcy of Perq, darling of the tabloids and a Libyan arms merchant.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In her contemporary retelling of the Mark Twain classic, Davis displays a gift for amusing satire. Internationally adored and envied, lovely Princess Darcy of the tiny kingdom of Perq privately detests both her spouse, Prince Rodney, and the irritating constraints of royal life. Impulsively, she changes places with her lookalike, Shan, an impoverished housewife from Wales. Humorous complications arise immediately, when Darcy must show wifely affection for Shan's husband, Tom, a grimy, uncultured miner who finds her sudden inability to cook very peculiar. But the simple life delights Darcy, and so does Miles, a lusty actor who once courted Shan and has returned to express his ardor. In Perq, tender-hearted Shan finds she loves Rodney, but an evil Libyan arms merchant concocts a fantastic scheme to destroy their "marriage" and claim the throne himself. Davis's ( Silk Lady ) antic imagination (even a Welsh sea monster figures in the plot) reveals an assortment of truths, particularly those regarding the mercurial relationship between the sexes.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co (T); 1st edition (April 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316174998
• ISBN-13: 978-0316174992
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,551,293 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gwen Davis is the author of eighteen novels, two books of poems, some movies and a Broadway play. She has traveled (and lived) all over the world. She went to Bryn Mawr, got her Masters from Stanford, had a fight with Ken Kesey, a lawsuit from a phony psychologist who claimed she had defamed him in one of her novels, met and married a really nice man who died, has two adult children, and has had a number of wonderful dogs. But they die. Still, life goes on, or she hopes it does. So now she lives in Bali.