1965 Histoire d'O

Description

Publishers' Original Binding

In the original French.

First published in 1954, this is a later 1965 edition, from the same publisher and in the same wraps as the first edition.

This provocative French erotic novel follows a woman known only as O, who willingly submits herself to a series of increasingly extreme acts of sexual and psychological submission at the hands of her lover and others.

The work was written by Anne Desclos under the pen name Pauline Reage, styled as a series of love letters to her lover Jean Paulhan, who was an admirer of the work of the Marquis de Sade.

This was published in the same year as the first English language translation of the work.