Venus in Furs
$29.61
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2000
Summary
Venus in Furs describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless Wanda von Dunajew. This is a passionate and powerful portrayal of one man’s struggle to enlighten and instruct himself and others in the realm of desire.
Published in 1870, the novel gained notoriety and a degree of immortality for its author when the word “masochism”—derived from his name—entered the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140447811 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140447814 |
| Author: | Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Larry Wolff, Joachim Neugroschel |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2000 |
| Weight: | 128g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Joachim Neugroschel has won three PEN translation awards and the French-American translation prize. He has also translated Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice and Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs, both for Penguin Classics. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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