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Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin and Anaïs Nin (2004, Trade Paperback)

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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

Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0156029030
ISBN-13
9780156029032
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2520106

Product Key Features

Book Title
Delta of Venus
Author
Anaïs Nin
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Erotica / General, Short Stories (Single Author), Romance / Erotica
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
304 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
8.1 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3527.I865d42 2004
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
Table of Content
Contents 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
Copyright Date
1977
Lccn
2003-047835
Dewey Decimal
813/.52
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21

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