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Item Details
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VENUS IN FURS
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| By: |
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch |
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Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0007300468 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780007300464 |
| Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS |
| Pub. date: |
19 January, 2009 |
| Series: |
Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Translated from: |
German |
| Description: |
First published in 1870, the author of `Venus in Furs' defined - and unwittingly gave his own name to - that sexual proclivity we know as masochism in this understated, charged erotic classic. |
| Synopsis: |
First published in 1870, the author of `Venus in Furs' defined - and unwittingly gave his own name to - that sexual proclivity we know as masochism in this understated, charged erotic classic.What woman could resist a trembling man handing her the whip?Severin is a young Galician nobleman with a secret; he can only love a woman with a ruthless heart, who will rain her whip upon him in a shower of bloody kisses. When he meets Wanda, the wealthy and beautiful widow living in the apartment upstairs, he wonders if she might be the one to help him realise his darkest desires. But Wanda is better than she ever dreamed possible at domination - and soon Severin realises he is powerless to escape what he has begun. Here, fantasy and reality writhe together in a ceaseless, fraught embrace... |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
HarperPerennial |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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