The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade

by Wendy Doniger

Book Overview

"Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger." Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and popular storytelling. In a tour that runs from Shakespeare to Hollywood and from Abraham Lincoln to Casanova, the erudite and irrepressible Wendy Doniger shows us the variety, danger, and allure of the "bedtrick," or what it means to wake up with a stranger.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226156435
• ISBN13: 9780226156439
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.9" x 8.7"