Pleasure (Penguin Classics)

Pleasure (Penguin Classics)

Putting the sex back inÂ Pleasure,Â here is the first new English translation since the Victorian era of the great Italian masterpiece of sensuality and seduction
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Like Oscar Wildeâ€™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 Andreaâ€™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 Dâ€™Annunzioâ€™s masterpiece, the first in more than one hundred years, restores what was considered too offensive to be included in the 1898 translationâ€”some of the very scenes that are key to the novelâ€™s status as a landmark of literary decadence.

For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500Â titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theÂ series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-dateÂ translations by award-winning translators.

From the Trade Paperback edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Classics
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-07-30
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Classics
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-07-30
Format	Kindle eBook

Pleasure (Penguin Classics)

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