THE MISFITS: A STUDY OF SEXUAL OUTSIDERS. by Wilson, Colin - 1989

London: Grafton, 1989. 271 pp, 7 3/4" H. "From the Marquis de Sade to Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, who ritually disembowelled himself in 1970, 'The Misfits' examines Charlotte Bach's controversial theory that sexual deviants may be more highly evolved than the sexually 'normal'. Following the history of morbid sexuality down through Byron, Gogol and Swinburne, we observe the rise of 'hard porn', study the real-life necrophile Sergeant Bertrand, and the beginnings of the modern sex crime with Jack the Ripper. Analysing the sex lives of James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, Lawrence of Arabia and many others, 'The Misfits' is both a sequel to Colin Wilson's classic 'The Outsider' and a fascinating catalogue of human sexual perversity." Interior - light browning to pages, cigarette odour, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - very light edge wear, two light creases and small sticker pull on spine, two tiny scuffs on front cover (sticker removal) light browning to edges of text block.. Soft Cover. Good+.