num_pages: 286
description: From influential feminist artist and essayist Anais Nin, Delta of Venus is one of the most important works of modern female erotica and "a joyous display of the erotic imagination" ( The New York Times Book Review ). In this story collection, Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru. This is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from a master of erotic writing."Inventive, sophisticated . . . highly elegant naughtiness."—Cosmopolitan
language: English
title: Delta of Venus
titlecomplete: Delta of Venus
characters: Dalvedo, Melie, Jean, Marianne, Millard Nullings, Viviane, Yvonne, Mabel, Gustavo, Pierre Comte, Manuel, Michel, Marcel, Lilith, Mary Anne, Martha (divers), George Kirrin, John (divers), Mafouka, Mathilde, Mollie, Brown, Jacque, Bijou, Ethel, Fred, Mary, Elena Kyler, Leila, Kazimir, Louise, Sylvia, Maman, Evelyn (Exit Strategy), Donald, Kay, Andre, Dobo, Gisele, Madeleine, Roger, Madeline, Fatima, Maria, Antonio, Linda, Martinez
genres: Fiction, Classics, France, Sexuality, Erotica, Adult, Feminism, Romance, Literature, Short Stories
ratings_count: 21744
publisher: Mariner Books