About this title: In this classic late-19th-century novel, poet Sacher-Masoch explores the psychological dynamics of masochism through the story of Severin von Kusiemski, a nobleman whose idea of bliss is to be the slave of the sadistic Wanda.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harper Uk
Date Published: 2009-09-01
ISBN-13:9780007300464ISBN:0007300468
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780007300464. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Date Published: 2000-06-01
ISBN-13:9780140447811ISBN:0140447814
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780140447811. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780140447811ISBN:0140447814
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Sylvan Press, New York
Date Published: 1947
Description: Very Good + in Very Good- jacket. Dust jacket has normal scuffs and soils; a very nice copy of book. "'Venus in Furs' is widely regarded as the literary masterpiece of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, the brilliant Austro-Hungarian whose name put a new word in the English language: masochism. " 140 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Sylvan Press., New York.
Date Published: 1947
Description: With Dustwrapper jacket. Octavo, dark beige cloth with red titling to spine. 140pp. Endpapers partially tined and pages beginning to tone to margins, else a clean copy that is Vg in a price-clipped dustwrapper that is chipped to top edge and is darkened a shade to spine. The story of sexual humiliation that caused the authors name to derive the eponymous term, masochism. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Sylvan Press, New York
Date Published: 1947
Description: Good in Good- jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The author was not only a writer but a student of psychology, whose name became the basis of our word "masochism. " Jacket is chipped, scuffed, with one small closed tear, not price clipped. Boards lightly bumped with minor edgewear. Text clean & unmarked, binding is tight. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Digireads. com
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781420934250ISBN:1420934252
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 5.98 by 9 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00080 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback ) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780140447811ISBN:0140447814
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 160 pages. (160 pages) severin von kusiemski, a european nobleman desires to be enslaved to a woman. severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless wanda von dunajew. this book portrays one man's struggle to enlighten and instruct himself and others in the realm of desire. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only, New York
Date Published: 1928
Description: Raymond, Charles. Good. No Jacket. Light dampstaining; worn edges and exposed/chipped corners; other scuffs and soils as well; text block is clean. The noted work of the man infamous for creating the term "masochism". 218 pages. read more
Edition: Limited Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Date Published: 1928
Description: Illustrated by Raymond, Charles. Very Good. Privately Printed. Purple cloth boards. Some fraying to the head and tail of the spine. Light soiling, and fading to the spine. A chip to page 149, not affecting the text. Limited to 1250 copies. A very good copy, lacking the slipcase. First published in 1870, the author defined--and unwittingly gave his own name to--that sexual proclivity we know as masochism in this understated, charged erotic classic. read more
"Most of people start reading this book with different backgrounds: knowing Sade's works, after listening to Velvet Underground music, studying the psychology of masochism etc etc ... Well, in my case i just found it by accident and started reading it without knowing any of these other things. I think that this was pretty good for me since i had no idea about what to expect, or how the book would be like, and i quite liked it. Despite of the particularities that could make some more traditional or close-minded people shocked(like some dynamics or details about the author's Goddess x slave idealized relationship) the story itself is, somehow, very stimulating. One can easily find some random philosophical questions and even social critics in this book which makes the reading very interestiing."
"I picked up this book after hearing it mentioned In Shane Macgowans fine Biog with Victoria Clark and decided to give it a read. As well as the Author's name leading to the coining of the phrase 'Sado Masochism' the Book itself has relevance in popular culture through the Venus in Furs track by the Velvet Underground and of course Steve 'Severin'from Siouxsie and the Banshees. The book itself was not the shocker it could have been but an interesting portrayal of the power of lust. Not a stellar read but an OK one."
"Well, I don't know if I'm really impressed by this book. I don't know what I did expect from it but I found it rather old fashioned, which is of course to be expected judging by when it was written. But nonetheless it's a highly interesting and rather short read. To me the person that seems most "sick" is in a way that of Wanda, turning and twisting, changing character like someone with bi-polar disease, this might very well be connected to the sort of misogynist writing style of Sacher-Masoch. I really liked the surprising ending in this renowned book too."
"This book was amazing. I'm not into S&M, but I am interested in Victorian era erotica. There isn't very much out and out sex, if that's what you're looking for. It's a love story between a couple who have two very different views of love. It ends about as well as you would expect.
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