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A collection of previously unpublished erotic manuscripts from the author of The Songs of Bilitis

A bestselling author in his time, Pierre Louÿs (18701925) was a friend of, and influence on, André Gide, Paul Valéry, Oscar Wilde and Stephane Mallarmé among others. He achieved instant notoriety with Aphrodite and The Songs of Bilitis, but it was only after his death that Louÿs'' true legacy was to be discovered: nearly 900 pounds of erotic manuscripts were found in his home, all of them immediately scattered among collectors and many subsequently lost. Since then, it has become clear that Louÿs is the greatest French writer of erotica there ever was. The Young Girl''s Handbook of Good Manners was the first of his erotic manuscripts to see publication, and it also remains his most outrageousan erotic classic in which humor takes precedence over arousal. By means of shockingly filthy adviceostensibly offered for use in educational establis

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    Publisher: Wakefield Press
    Publication Date: 28/02/2010
    ISBN13: 9780984115518, 978-0984115518
    ISBN10: 098411551X
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    Book Synopsis

    A collection of previously unpublished erotic manuscripts from the author of The Songs of Bilitis

    A bestselling author in his time, Pierre Louÿs (18701925) was a friend of, and influence on, André Gide, Paul Valéry, Oscar Wilde and Stephane Mallarmé among others. He achieved instant notoriety with Aphrodite and The Songs of Bilitis, but it was only after his death that Louÿs'' true legacy was to be discovered: nearly 900 pounds of erotic manuscripts were found in his home, all of them immediately scattered among collectors and many subsequently lost. Since then, it has become clear that Louÿs is the greatest French writer of erotica there ever was. The Young Girl''s Handbook of Good Manners was the first of his erotic manuscripts to see publication, and it also remains his most outrageousan erotic classic in which humor takes precedence over arousal. By means of shockingly filthy adviceostensibly offered for use in educational establis

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