2000, ISBN: 9780284391070

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Pergamon Press. Used - Good. Octavo. Hardcover, . . Ex-library with the usual treatments. No dust jacket. 306. Bound in black cloth with a green text box and gilt lettering on the spine… Plus…

Pergamon Press. Used - Good. Octavo. Hardcover, . . Ex-library with the usual treatments. No dust jacket. 306. Bound in black cloth with a green text box and gilt lettering on the spine. Head end of the spine appears to have been nibbled on by an animal. Damge is purely aesthetic. Binding is sturdy. Textblock is solid. Pages are clean. Offered by the Antiquarian, Rare, and Collectible department of Better World Books. Your purchase benefits global literacy programs. 100% satisfaction guaranteed., Pergamon Press, London: Oxford University Press, 2000 An imaginative theoretical reading of an unsettling masterpiece by the French writer Georges Bataille, recognized now as a major figure in twentieth-century French literature. The obscene, erotic, and disturbing text Histoire de l'oeil (1928) is a traumatic event in the history of modernity, and in the prehistory of literary theory, provoking critical moments in the trajectories of structuralism and in the recent theorizations around Bataille's notion of the informe. Story of the Eye is a novella that details the sexual experimentation of two teenage lovers, and their increasing perversion. It is narrated by the young man looking back on his experiences. Story of the Eye consists of several vignettes, centered around the sexual passion existing between the unnamed late adolescent male narrator and Simone, his primary female partner. Within this episodic narrative two secondary figures emerge: Marcelle is a mentally ill sixteen year old, who comes to a sad end, and Lord Edmund, a voyeuristic, English emigre aristocrat. Simone and the narrator first consummate their lust on a beach near their home, and involve Marcelle within their activity. The couple are exhibitionists, copulating within Simone's house in full view of her mother. During this second episode, Simone derives pleasure from inserting hard and soft boiled eggs for her vaginal and anal stimulation, she also experiences considerable enjoyment from the viscosity of various liquids. The pair undertake an orgy with other adolescents, which involves some broken glass and involuntary bloodletting, and ends with Marcelle's psychological breakdown. The narrator flees his own parents' home taking a pistol from the office of his bedridden, senile, and violent father. They view Marcelle within a sanatorium, but fail to break her out. Naked, they flee during night back to Simone's home, and more displays of exhibitionist sex ensue before Simone's widowed mother. Later, they finally break Marcelle out of the institution, but unfortunately, Marcelle is totally insane. Deprived of her therapeutic environment, she hangs herself. The pair have sex next to her corpse. After Marcelle's suicide, the two flee to Spain, where they meet Sir Edmund. They witness a Madrid bullfight, which involves the prowess of handsome twenty year old matador, El Granero. Initially, El Granero kills the first bull that he encounters and the animal is consequently castrated. Simone then pleasures herself by vaginally inserting these taurine testicles. Unfortunately, El Granero is killed by the next bull that he fights, and his face is mutilated. As the corpse of El Granero is removed from the stadium, his right eye has worked loose from its socket, and is hanging, bloody and distended. Simone, Sir Edmund, and the narrator visit the Catholic church of San Seville after the day's events. Simone aggressively seduces Don Aminado, a handsome, young, Catholic priest, fellating him while Simone and the narrator have sex. Sir Edmund undertakes a blasphemous parody of the Catholic Eucharist involving desecration of the bread and wine using Don Aminado's urine and semen before Simone strangles Don Aminado to death during his final orgasm. Sir Edmund eviscerates one of the dead priests' eyes, and Simone inserts it within her vagina, while she and the narrator have sex. The trio successfully elude apprehension for the murder of Don Aminado, and make their way down Andalusia. Sir Edmund purchases an African-staffed yacht so that they can continue their debaucheries, whereupon the story ends. In a postscript, Bataille reveals that the character of Marcelle is based on his own mother, who suffered from bipolar disorder, while the narrator's father is also a transcription of his own unhappy paternal relationship. A British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monograph.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Oxford University Press, 2000, London: Luxor Press, 1970 The Arabic equivalent of the Kama Sutra and one of the most beautifully written sex guides ever published. Full of strange and exotic sexual practices of the Middle East. Translated by Sir Richard Burton. The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight by Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic literature. The book presents opinions on what qualities men and women should have to be attractive, gives advice on sexual technique, warnings about sexual health, and recipes to remedy sexual maladies. It gives lists of names for the penis and vagina, has a section on the interpretation of dreams, and briefly describes sex among animals. Interspersed with these there are a number of stories which are intended to give context and amusement. According to the introduction of Colville's English translation, Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi probably wrote The Perfumed Garden sometime between 1410 and 1434. Sheikh Nefzawi, full name Abu Abdullah Muhammad ben Umar Nafzawi, was born among the Berber Nefzawa tribe in the south of present-day Tunisia. Circa 1420 he compiled at the request of the Hafsid ruler of Tunis, Abû Fâris `Abd al-`Azîz al-Mutawakkil, the present work. The reputation acquired by this work in the Arab world was similar to that of the Arabian Nights.. First Thus. Paperback. New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall., Luxor Press, 1970<

1994, ISBN: 9780284391070

Puffin, June 1994. Trade Paperback Trade Paperback. Used - Very Good. Slight wear. May have sticker residue or marks or writing. Fast shipping from USA. Satisfaction guaranteed., Puffin… Plus…

Puffin, June 1994. Trade Paperback Trade Paperback. Used - Very Good. Slight wear. May have sticker residue or marks or writing. Fast shipping from USA. Satisfaction guaranteed., Puffin, London: Luxor Press, 1970 The Arabic equivalent of the Kama Sutra and one of the most beautifully written sex guides ever published. Full of strange and exotic sexual practices of the Middle East. Translated by Sir Richard Burton. The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight by Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic literature. The book presents opinions on what qualities men and women should have to be attractive, gives advice on sexual technique, warnings about sexual health, and recipes to remedy sexual maladies. It gives lists of names for the penis and vagina, has a section on the interpretation of dreams, and briefly describes sex among animals. Interspersed with these there are a number of stories which are intended to give context and amusement. According to the introduction of Colville's English translation, Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi probably wrote The Perfumed Garden sometime between 1410 and 1434. Sheikh Nefzawi, full name Abu Abdullah Muhammad ben Umar Nafzawi, was born among the Berber Nefzawa tribe in the south of present-day Tunisia. Circa 1420 he compiled at the request of the Hafsid ruler of Tunis, Abû Fâris `Abd al-`Azîz al-Mutawakkil, the present work. The reputation acquired by this work in the Arab world was similar to that of the Arabian Nights.. First Thus. Paperback. New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall., Luxor Press, 1970<

2006, ISBN: 9780284391070

Gotham, 2006-01-19. Paperback. Like New. Shows very light use., Gotham, 2006-01-19, London: Luxor Press, 1970 The Arabic equivalent of the Kama Sutra and one of the most beautifully wri… Plus…

Gotham, 2006-01-19. Paperback. Like New. Shows very light use., Gotham, 2006-01-19, London: Luxor Press, 1970 The Arabic equivalent of the Kama Sutra and one of the most beautifully written sex guides ever published. Full of strange and exotic sexual practices of the Middle East. Translated by Sir Richard Burton. The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight by Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic literature. The book presents opinions on what qualities men and women should have to be attractive, gives advice on sexual technique, warnings about sexual health, and recipes to remedy sexual maladies. It gives lists of names for the penis and vagina, has a section on the interpretation of dreams, and briefly describes sex among animals. Interspersed with these there are a number of stories which are intended to give context and amusement. According to the introduction of Colville's English translation, Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi probably wrote The Perfumed Garden sometime between 1410 and 1434. Sheikh Nefzawi, full name Abu Abdullah Muhammad ben Umar Nafzawi, was born among the Berber Nefzawa tribe in the south of present-day Tunisia. Circa 1420 he compiled at the request of the Hafsid ruler of Tunis, Abû Fâris `Abd al-`Azîz al-Mutawakkil, the present work. The reputation acquired by this work in the Arab world was similar to that of the Arabian Nights.. First Thus. Paperback. New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall., Luxor Press, 1970<