num_pages: 319
description: This hugely enjoyable novel, a scandalous success in 1907, is even today, startling for its enthusiastic depiction of female sensuality. One of Virago’s trio of turn-of-the-century erotic best-sellers, with E M Hull’s The Sheik and M Dell’s The Way of an Eagle, it shows Paul Verdayne, the ‘perfect young English animal’, fascinated by a mysterious beauty at his Swiss hotel. Surrounded by tuberoses and tigerskins, ‘the Lady’ teaches him the arts of love, and gives him three weeks of tempestuous passion. Then, weeping, she renounces him and disappears, and amid high drama Paul finally discovers her august and tragic secret...
language: English
title: Three Weeks
titlecomplete: Three Weeks
genres: Fiction, Erotica, British Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, Sexuality, 20th Century
ratings_count: 261
series: Three Weeks
publisher: Virago Press