Kirjahaku

First published in 1959, ‘Emmanuelle’ inspired the most successful x-rated film of all time, spawning an industry in imitations and worldwide notoriety. Can sharing only add to your pleasure? Emmanuelle is curious. Her husband Jean married her for her 'erotic genius', not to possess her. The only solution to Emmanuelle's passion is through a mentor; a man who will guide her through her deepest fantasies – unveiling languid tales of discovery in the close heat of the Orient. ‘Emmanuelle’ is a candid confession and liberated exploration of erotic philosophy and bisexuality, where the contrast between repression and desire results in an intense, boundary-breaking journey into the exotic.

This classic book of erotica is, alongside Story of O, the most famous French underground novel of the late twentieth century and a work of seductive literary merit. It begins with nineteen-year-old Emmanuelle's flight from London to join her husband in Bangkok. On the airplane, she is seduced by the passenger seated next to her. By the time they land, she has indulged her irrepressible and insatiable sexual appetite, embarking on an odyssey of hedonistic sensual discovery that takes her from the arms of her husband to intimate encounters with the wives of his business associates, to further explorations wherein the philosophical and aesthetic facets of eroticism are expounded--and enacted--to the fullest degree. Intoxicating and intelligent, Emmanuelle, which has sold hundreds of thousands of copies since its initial clandestine publication in France, follows one woman's liberation from unconscious to intensely conscious sexuality. It is as pertinent today as it was four decades ago.

Emmanuelle is, alongside Story of O, a classic book of erotica and the most famous French underground novel of the late twentieth century and a work of seductive literary merit. Emmanuelle II continues the story of an unforgettable woman, a happy sensualist, whose unusual erotic experimentation explores the philosophy of sexuality in a novel of literary and philosophical merit. The beautiful heroine's initiation into the ecstasies of love are here set against the exotic background of Thailand, where she easily moves from the attentions of a handsome Siamese prince at an elegant soiree to the dark ante-chamber of a Buddhist temple to learn how the vow of celibacy can be cleverly circumvented by a venerable old monk. A sensual delight, Emmanuelle II succeeds, like few novels before it, in pushing the philosophy of eroticism to the frontiers of myth. This is one of the few erotic novels of ideas since Sade. Its exploration of delightful fantasy transformed into exquisite fulfillment makes this one of the finest erotic novels every published. It is as pertinent today as it was four decades ago.

Jeune femme de bonne famille, professeur la R union, bient t 24 ans, Claire n'a connu qu'une exp rience sexuelle d cevante. Influenc e par le parcours initiatique des h ro nes de ses lectures, elle se met en recherche d'un amant conciliant qui pourrait l'initier aux plaisirs charnels auxquels toute femme aspire. Elle tente sa chance en t l phonant des hommes m rs qu'elle s lectionne sur l'annuaire. Eric accepte de rentrer dans son jeu, mais il exigera de rester une voix au t l phone. Quand elle sera pr te pour une vraie relation, il la confiera Elodie, une amie lesbienne qui sera sa premi re partenaire. Cet homme qui a su si bien la comprendre, veiller l'expression de sa sensualit si longtemps refoul e, la transformer, r pondre ses d sirs, elle l'aimera sans le conna tre, n'aura de cesse de le s duire. Fascin par sa personnalit , sa culture, sa sensualit , sa d termination le s duire, Eric sait qu'il ne pourra pas rester ind finiment une voix au t l phone. Quand elle lui proposera de se retrouver en amoureux l' le Maurice apr s le d part d'Elodie, il acceptera enfin la rencontre qu'il sait fatale. Ce sera le d but d'une belle histoire d'amour.