# Briar Rose & Spanking the Maid

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- Book: [Briar Rose & Spanking the Maid](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-coover/briar-rose-spanking-the-maid) ([Briar Rose & Spanking the Maid.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-coover/briar-rose-spanking-the-maid.md))
- Authors: [Robert Coover](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-coover)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-299-4
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2011-04-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

These two novellas by the groundbreaking, fearless, and immeasurably influential Robert Coover are dirty, funny and brilliant. In Briar Rose a sleeping beauty is trapped in an enchantment for a hundred years, dreaming of stories in which someone like her wakes up disappointed, or becomes a mother, or is stripped and defiled. And, as she dreams, outside, failed princes die and hang their remains on the thorns of a briar hedge. In Spanking the Maid a maid and her master are each committed to their own hard service: she, attempting to perform her simple duties without error; he, supplying punishment by rod, belt, hairbrush, whip, cane and slipper when she inevitably fails. These tales of desire are Coover at his most darkly playful.