Venus in Furs

Severin von Kusiemski is obsessed with the Greek goddess of love, and is consumed by the desire to be dominated. When he meets his voluptuous neighbor, Wanda von Dunajew, he is enthralled, and convinces her to enter into a contract: she is to be his Mistress, he will be her slave. So they travel from the harsh Carpathian slopes to verdant Italy, where Severin's once-reluctant Mistress embraces her power with an icy fervour, testing her slave's devotion to breaking point. This otherworldly study of dominance, lust and submission broke new ground in literature and continues to challenge our learned conventions of love and sexuality. Also available in the Classics by Roads series: Dracula, Bram Stoker, ISBN 9781909399341 Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad ISBN 9781909399013 Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte, ISBN 9781909399334 Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne, ISBN 9781909399273 Lady Chatterley's Lover, D.H. Lawrence, ISBN 9781909399280 Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert, ISBN 9781909399082 Notes From Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky, ISBN 9781909399099 The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford, ISBN 9781909399266 The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle, ISBN 9781909399051 The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde, ISBN 9781909399006 The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli, ISBN 9781909399303 The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne, ISBN 9781909399020 The Thirty-nine Steps, John Buchan, ISBN 9781909399242 The Trial, Franz Kafka, ISBN 9781909399297 What is Art? Leo Tolstoy, ISBN 9781909399259 Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte, ISBN 9781909399075 Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, ISBN 9781909399068 The King in Yellow, Robert Chambers, ISBN 9781909399501 Emma, Jane Austen, ISBN 9781909399495"