Venus in Furs (Penguin Classics S.)

by Larry Wolff (Introduction), Larry Wolff (Introduction), Joachim Neugroschel (Editor), Larry Wolff (Introduction), Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch (Author)

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  Paperback
  2000

  $9.97

  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 vocabulary of psychiatry. This remains a classic literary statement on sexual submission and control.

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $22.51

  Sometimes there are no limits to what you'll do for the person you love. From the first moment Severin sees Wanda, draped in furs, he is captivated by her beauty, and her cruelty. He will do anything to please her, and soon desire becomes obsession as they enter into a world of domination, pleasure and pain to which it seems there are no boundaries. But as Wanda's fantasies become increasingly brutal and she takes another lover, their games begin to get dangerously out of control.