A masterpiece of erotic fiction and psychological study, Hecate is the first of two novels tracing the carnal and emotional liaisons of Catherine Crachat, a Parisian actress. Hecate recounts the debaucheries and betrayals of a vicious love triangle: Catherine and her young lover, Pierre, part ways in Paris, onto be drawn separately to Vienna and into a web of lust and intrigue spun by the Baroness Fanny Felicitas Hohenstein. Desired...