Pleasure (Penguin Classics)
by D'Annunzio, Gabriele; Raffaelli, Lara Gochin [Editor]; Raffaelli, Lara Gochin [Translator]; Stille, Alexander [Introduction]; Raffaelli, Lara Gochin [Foreword];
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- 0143106740
- ISBN 13
- 9780143106746
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Synopsis
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.
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- Title
- Pleasure (Penguin Classics)
- Author
- D'Annunzio, Gabriele; Raffaelli, Lara Gochin [Editor]; Raffaelli, Lara Gochin [Translator]; Stille, Alexander [Introduction]; Raffaelli, Lara Gochin [Foreword];
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Quantity Available
- 800
- ISBN 10
- 0143106740
- ISBN 13
- 9780143106746
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Date Published
- 2013-07-30
- X weight
- 7 oz
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