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Putting the sex back in Pleasure, here is the first new English translation since the Victorian era of the great Italian masterpiece of sensuality and seduction

Like Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Andrea Sperelli lives his life as a work of art, seeking beauty... Read Full Overview

Il piacere un romanzo di Gabriele D'Annunzio, scritto nel 1889 a Francavilla al Mare e pubblicato l'anno seguente dai Fratelli Treves. A partire dal 1895 recher il sopratitolo I romanzi della Rosa, formando un ciclo narrativo con L'innocente e Il trionfo della morte, trilogia... Read Full Overview

The Child of Pleasure (1889) is a novel by Gabriele D'Annunzio. The first in a series of three novels exploring the lives of the Italian bourgeoisie, The Child of Pleasure marked a shift in D'Annunzio's early writing, which consisted of poems in the Symbolist... Read Full Overview

General Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso OMS CMG MVM (12 March 1863 - 1 March 1938) was an Italian poet, playwright, orator and journalist and soldier during World War I. He occupied a prominent place in Italian literature from 1889 to 1910 and later political life... Read Full Overview

Al centro delle vicende de Il Piacere c' uno dei molti alter ego fortemente autobiografici nati dalla penna dannunziana: Andrea Sperelli, esteta raffinato e coltissimo, discendente d'una famiglia nobile, estraneo alla barbarie dei tempi moderni e tutto dedito (come l'autore... Read Full Overview

The Child of Pleasure (1889) is a novel by Gabriele D'Annunzio. The first in a series of three novels exploring the lives of the Italian bourgeoisie, The Child of Pleasure marked a shift in D'Annunzio's early writing, which consisted of poems in the Symbolist... Read Full Overview

The Child of Pleasure is a novel written by Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio and originally published in 1898. The story follows the life of Andrea Sperelli, a young aristocrat living in Rome at the turn of the 20th century. Sperelli is a talented artist and poet, but he is... Read Full Overview

Negli ambienti aristocratici della Roma di fine '800 il giovane duca Andrea Sperelli spende la sua vita tra i piaceri erotici e mondani: attratto da due donne, la dissoluta Elena e la pura e spirituale Maria, in un delirio di onnipotenza vorrebbe possederle come una sola persona... Read Full Overview

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for... Read Full Overview