In this retelling of "Sleeping Beauty," a young woman convinces a gorgeous man with amnesia that he is her fiancâe, so that she can marry and thereby inherit her benefactor's home--but that is before she learns that he is her benefactor's rogue of a son, who has returned after many years to take that very home away.

From the earliest records of exploration and encounter to the globalized, multicultural present, this compilation features New Zealand's major writing, from Polynesian mythology to the Yates' Garden Guide, from Allen Curnow to Alice Tawhai, and from Wiremu Te Rangikaheke's letters to Katherine Mansfield's notebooks. Including fiction, nonfiction, letters, speeches, novels, stories, comics, and songs, this imaginative selection provides new paths into New Zealand writing and culture.