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Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio; Lara Gochin Raffaelli; Lara Gochin Raffaelli; Lara Gochin Raffaelli; Alexander Stille is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. R

Who reads Pleasure?

Author

Gabriele D'Annunzio; Lara Gochin Raffaelli; Lara Gochin Raffaelli; Lara Gochin Raffaelli; Alexander Stille

Publisher

Penguin Group US

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143106746

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance

Rating

4.14 / 5 (34 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14