Venus in Furs

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Venus in Furs
Format
Paperback
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Country
United Kingdom
Published
21 May 2009
Pages
160
ISBN
9780007300464

Venus in Furs

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

First published in 1870, the author of ‘Venus in Furs’ defined - and unwittingly gave his own name to - that sexual proclivity we know as masochism in this understated, charged erotic classic.
What woman could resist a trembling man handing her the whip?

Severin is a young Galician nobleman with a secret; he can only love a woman with a ruthless heart, who will rain her whip upon him in a shower of bloody kisses. When he meets Wanda, the wealthy and beautiful widow living in the apartment upstairs, he wonders if she might be the one to help him realise his darkest desires. But Wanda is better than she ever dreamed possible at domination - and soon Severin realises he is powerless to escape what he has begun. Here, fantasy and reality writhe together in a ceaseless, fraught embrace…

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