Venus in Furs

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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From the inner cover: "Masochism" is derived from the name of our author, Sacher-Masoch, and Venus in Furs is the classic novel that describes this strange and morbid manifestation of love. Those interested in abnormal psychology will know this as a "must" book that has been long out of print and unavailable in English. But even the most casual reader cannot avoid being at once fascinated and repelled by the graphic descriptions of morbid yearnings never satisfied despite beatings, humiliations and tortures to soul and body. Titian's Venus With a Mirror ("Venus in Furs") which is our frontispiece, referred to throughout the book as in the Dresden Museum, is now in the U.S. National Gallery of Art, Mellon Collection. LIMITED EDITION
Genres: ClassicsFictionEroticaRomance19th CenturyGerman LiteratureLiteratureSexualityNovelsBDSM
140 Pages

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