# The Sleeping Beauty

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- Book: [The Sleeping Beauty](https://www.bookquiver.com/c-s-evans/the-sleeping-beauty) ([The Sleeping Beauty.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/c-s-evans/the-sleeping-beauty.md))
- Authors: [C. S. Evans](https://www.bookquiver.com/c-s-evans)
- Publisher: childrens_classics
- ISBN: 978-18-5715-920-2
- Pages: 112
- Published: 1993-10-21
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

This most romantic of fairy tales is found in many versions, and the story of the beautiful girl who falls into a long sleep, to be awakened by a lover, has been interpreted by some as an allegory of the spring revival of the earth after a long winter. Charles Seddon Evans, a schoolmaster turned publisher, retold the story specially for Arthur Rackham, who illustrated it with silhouette drawing as a companion volume to CINDERELLA, both first published in 1919 and now reissued in Everyman's Library.