A princess cursed at birth to die by a spindle is doomed instead to a hundred-year sleep, waking only when a prince's arrival finally breaches the thorned wood grown up around her castle.
Books that mention Sleeping Beauty (5)
Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton: “There is the terrible allegory of the "Sleeping Beauty," which tells how the human creature was blessed with all birthday gifts, yet cursed with death”
At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald: “I cannot myself help thinking that he was somewhat indebted for this one to the old story of The Sleeping Beauty.”
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett: “like the Sleeping Beauty, slumbering for a hundred years.”
Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt: “'He thinks about spindles, touches on Sleeping Beauty and her pricked finger, goes back to Persephone, dreaming girls who have eaten forbidden bloody seeds.'”
How to Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis: “And when, a bit later, I read the story in Grimms’ Fairy Tales, where Sleeping Beauty is asleep for years and years, and the whole palace falls asleep with her, and a forest grows up around them, and it takes a real hero of a prince to hack his way through, I liked”