Venus in Furs

‘A gateway into a world of forbidden pain and pleasure’ Financial TimesSeverin, a gentle Galician nobleman, desires nothing more than to be enslaved by a beautiful woman. When he comes across the striking widow Wanda at an Italian resort, it seems he has met his match.Both a groundbreaking fable and an erotic nightmare, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's novel inspired the term ‘masochism’ and remains an iconic vision of sexual submission and control. ‘Short, intense, erotic’ Hilton AlsVintage Desire: classic stories of lust and longing.