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Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin (2004, Trade Paperback)
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In this story collection, Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. This is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from a master of erotic writing.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100156029030
ISBN-139780156029032
eBay Product ID (ePID)2520106
Product Key Features
Book TitleDelta of Venus
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2004
TopicErotica / General, Women Authors, Short Stories (Single Author)
GenreFiction, Literary Collections
AuthorAnaïs Nin
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight8.3 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-047835
Reviews"The first American stories by a woman to celebrate sexuality with complete and open abandonment. . . A joyous display of the erotica imagination."--The New York Times Books Review "As readable and persuasive as some of the best of Isak Dinesen...A style as rich and compelling. . .as the best of the elegant French writers of erotica."--Los Angeles Times --, The unknown client who paid Anais Nin a dollar a page back in the 1940s to write erotica got his money's worth and to spare. After all, erotica is pornography with class, and Nih gives full measure of both: one feels her women who disrobe to some impetuous command were dressed in Paris, if not by Mainbocher at least in a Schiaparelli copy. Women wore garters then and men had buttons to their flies, articles now almost lost to the erotic imagination, as zippers and body stockings, too, will someday succumb to the march of progress. Nin boned up on Krafft-Ebing and the Kama Sutra to write these sensual episodes, and few rooms in the house of Eros are left unvisited, from pedophilia to sado-masochism. The truth is that she does it very well: slightly tongue-in-cheek, supremely unabashed - a woman of good family kicking up her French heels. This caviar was long denied the general public; once, no doubt, because of the puritanic temper of the times, and later because Nin feared that the words she wrote to order for a man (who proscribed poetry) would not throw any light on feminine sexuality. Luckily, she had second thoughts and released these pages before her recent death, and the only regret is that she won't be around to observe the delight they'll occasion., PRAISE FOR DELTA OF VENUS "A joyous display of the erotic imagination." -The New York Times Book Review "Inventive, sophisticated . . . highly elegant naughtiness."-Cosmopolitan, "The first American stories by a woman to celebrate sexuality with complete and open abandonment. . . A joyous display of the erotica imagination." -- The New York Times Books Review "As readable and persuasive as some of the best of Isak Dinesen...A style as rich and compelling. . .as the best of the elegant French writers of erotica."-- Los Angeles Times
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813/.52
Table Of ContentContents PREFACE The Hungarian Adventurer Mathilde The Boarding School The Ring Mallorca Artists and Models Lilith Marianne The Veiled Woman Elena The Basque and Bijou Pierre Manuel Linda Marcel 6
SynopsisFrom influential feminist artist and essayist Anais Nin, Delta of Venus is one of the most important works of modern female erotica and "a joyous display of the erotic imagination" ( The New York Times Book Review ).In this story collection, Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. This is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from a master of erotic writing."Inventive, sophisticated . . . highly elegant naughtiness."--Cosmopolitan, From influential feminist artist and essayist Anais Nin, Delta of Venus is one of the most important works of modern female erotica and "a joyous display of the erotic imagination" (The New York Times Book Review)., From influential feminist artist and essayist Anais Nin, Delta of Venus is one of the most important works of modern female erotica and "a joyous display of the erotic imagination" (The New York Times Book Review).In this story collection, Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. This is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from a master of erotic writing."Inventive, sophisticated . . . highly elegant naughtiness."--Cosmopolitan, An extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the mistress of erotic writing In Delta of Venus , Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru.
LC Classification NumberPS3527.I865D42 2004
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