In La Vaud re's first venture into exotic erotica, the Java-set Three Flowers of Sensuality (1900), we follow St phane, a French artist abroad, and his adventures with three dancing girl sisters who have been kept and raised in closed religious communities dedicated to the celebration of female deities. In the second novel in the present volume, The King of Siam's Amazon (1902), which might have been partly inspired by Octave Mirbeau's Torture...