**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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