num_pages: 271
description: Fifteen short stories by Anaïs Nin published posthumously in 1977 - though largely written in the 1940s as erotica for a private collector. In Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin penned 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. Delta of Venus is an extraordinarily rich and exotic collection from the master of erotic writing.Part of the Quality Paperback Book Club series with limited-edition art cover. Cover art painted by Monica Elias.
language: English
title: Delta of Venus
titlecomplete: Delta of Venus
characters: Gustavo, Dalvedo, Mary, Madeleine, Millard Nullings, Roger, Kazimir, Pierre Comte, Gisele, Melie, Jacque, Fatima, Antonio, Donald, Mathilde, Ethel, Linda, Jean, Mafouka, George Kirrin, Fred, Madeline, Dobo, Marcel, Louise, Viviane, Mollie, Evelyn (Exit Strategy), Elena Kyler, Bijou, Mabel, Lilith, Leila, Brown, Andre, Mary Anne, Martinez, Manuel, Martha (divers), Yvonne, Sylvia, Maman, Michel, John (divers), Marianne, Kay, Maria
genres: Short Stories, Sexuality, Literature, Erotica, Classics, Feminism, Adult, Romance, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 21741
publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers