The Child of Pleasure

by Gabriele d'Annunzio and D'Annunzio Gabriele D'Annunzio

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 094662660X
• ISBN13: 9780946626601
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Hippocrene Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

When in Rome...read this book

D'Annuzio gives us the intimate details of the decadent lifestyle of a ne'er-do-well Roman count and his social class. The facts of the story could be told in a few sentences, but (like his contemporary Henry James) its the way he tells the story not the story itself that is the most appealing. His descriptions of Rome and the country villas of the rich make it a great book to take on a trip to Italy.