Pleasure
By: Gabriele D'Annunzio ; translated with a foreword and notes by Lara Gochin Raffaelli ; introduction by Alexander Stille
Series: Penguin classics; Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780143106746
Subjects: Fiction
Work titles: Piacere
Description: 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 special regard: the beautiful young widow Elena and the pure, virginlike Maria. In his pursuit of the exalted heights of extreme pleasure, Andrea plays them against each other, spinning a sadistic web of lust and deceit.
Notes: Translation from the Italian of: Piacere.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-355).