Pleasure [electronic resource]
Gabriele D'Annunzio2013
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Putting the sex back in Pleasure, here is the first new English translation
since the Victorian era of the great Italian masterpiece of sensuality and
seduction
Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Andrea Sperelli lives his life as a work of art,
seeking beauty and flouting the rules of morality and social interaction along
the way. In his aristocratic circles in Rome, he is a serial seducer. But there
are two women who command his special regard: the beautiful young widow Elena,
and the pure, virgin-like Maria. In Andrea's pursuit of the exalted heights of
extreme pleasure, he plays them against each other, spinning a sadistic web of
lust and deceit.
This new translation of D'Annunzio's masterpiece, the first in more than one
hundred years, restores what was considered too offensive to be included in the
1898 translation-some of the very scenes that are key to the novel's status as a
landmark of literary decadence.
For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the l...
Main title:
Pleasure [electronic resource] / Gabriele D'Annunzio
Author:
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Classics, 2013
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (384 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781101616772
Language:
English
BRN:
435208
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |