Pleasure

by Gabriele d'Annunzio and D'Annunzio Gabriele D'Annunzio

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143106740
• ISBN13: 9780143106746
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

When in Rome...read this book

D'Annuzio gives us the intimate details of the decadent lifestyle of a ne'er-do-well Roman count and his social class. The facts of the story could be told in a few sentences, but (like his contemporary Henry James) its the way he tells the story not the story itself that is the most appealing. His descriptions of Rome and the country villas of the rich make it a great book to take on a trip to Italy.