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Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless Wanda von Dunajew. This book portrays one man's struggle to enlighten and instruct himself and others in the realm of desire.

(Paperback)

First published in 1870, the author of Venus in Furs defined and unwittingly gave his own name to that sexual proclivity we know as masochism in this understated, charged erotic classic.