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Pleasure

Pleasure( )
Author: D'Annunzio, Gabriele
Translator: Raffaelli, Lara Gochin
Foreword by: Raffaelli, Lara Gochin
Notes by: Raffaelli, Lara Gochin
Introduction by: Stille, Alexander
ISBN:978-0-14-310674-6
Publication Date:Jul 2013
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $23.00
Book Description:

Putting the sex back inPleasure,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...
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Book Details
Pages:384
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / City Life
Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.992 x 7.566 x 0.702 Inches
Book Weight:0.664 Pounds
Author Biography
D'Annunzio, Gabriele (Author)
Born into a patriarchal family of the Abruzzo, D'Annunzio was sent to Prato to master Tuscan Italian. At age 16, under the classical influence of Giosue Carducci, he published his first poems, Primo Vere in 1879. His best works of the time include the novel Il fuoco (The Flame of Life) (1900); the poems of his Alcyone (one of the Pleiades), which are his best; the play The Dead City (1898); and his masterpiece The Daughter of Jorio (1904), a drama. Eager to perform on the world's stage in politics and in war as well as art, he became an ardent nationalist, lost an eye in a wartime flying accident, and then personally led an assault on Fiume in 1919, annexing it to Italy and ruling it like a Roman proconsul for 16 months. His support of Mussolini prompted some critics to treat him as a progenitor of fascism.

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