The Sleeping Beauty
1920
The most romantic of fairy tales, retold with Victorian elegance and quiet grace. C.S. Evans draws from both Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, weaving a tale of prophecy, patience, and the transformative power of love. The story follows Briar-Rose, a princess cursed to sleep for a century after pricking her finger on a spindle, a curse no kingly power could prevent, no matter how many spinning wheels were burned. For one hundred years, the kingdom slumbers in enchanted silence, waiting. Then comes a prince, drawn by rumors of a beautiful sleeper behind walls of thorns, who fights through the forgotten castle to find her. The kiss that awakens her is not mere romance. It is the triumph of love over fate, of hope over the certainty of doom. Evans expands the tale with inventive detail, giving depth to the fairy godmothers' gifts and the quiet tragedy of the sleeping kingdom. Arthur Rackham's silhouette illustrations drift through the pages like dreams made visible, making this edition a treasure for those who believe fairy tales are not for children alone.
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“There is only one success”
— C. S. Evans
“It is so easy to let life go by us in its swift amusing course, that sometimes it hardly seems worthwhile to attempt any bold strokes for truth. Truth, of course, does not need assistance; it can afford to ignore our errors. But in this quiet place, among the whisper of the trees, I seem to have heard a disconcerning sound. I have heard laughter, and I think it is the laughter of God.””
— C. S. Evans
“opened her big blue eyes and””
— C. S. Evans
“As far as I can, I will undo the mischief which my sister has done. It is true that I have not the power to prevent altogether what she has decreed. The Princess shall, indeed, prick her finger with the spindle of the spinning-wheel on the day when she attains her fifteenth year; but instead of dying she shall fall into a deep sleep; and this sleep shall last for a hundred years, and when that time is past, a King's son shall come to waken her.””
— C. S. Evans
“all things are simple when once you know them.””
— C. S. Evans
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