The Sleeping Beauty (ballet) and Princess Aurora arrives. She is introduced to four suitors by her doting parents. Aurora and the suitors perform the famous Rose Adagio. Presently, a cloaked stranger appears and offers a gift to the princess: a spindle. Having never seen one before, Aurora curiously examines the strange object as her parents desperately try to intervene. As predicted, she pricks her finger. While initially appearing to recover quickly, she falls into a swoon and collapses. The cloaked stranger reveals herself to be Carabosse, who believes that her curse still stands and that the princess is dead. Once again, the Lilac Fairy
Sleeping Beauty (short story) is duly produced, putting Sigmund to sleep, never to wake again. His wife approves of the arrangement and in due course takes the inheritance on his behalf, putting it to good use on the French Riviera. Sleeping Beauty (short story) "Sleeping Beauty" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in the magazine " Infinity Science Fiction" in April 1957, and later anthologized in" Tales from the White Hart". Like the rest of the collection, it is a frame story set in the fictional pub "White Hart", where Harry Purvis narrates the secondary tale. A discussion