Story of O
  • Published: 26 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9780345545343
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $32.99
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Story of O

A Novel

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Paperback
26 Mar 2013
Paperback
1 Jan 1985
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The original, classic erotic novel that started it all. Story of O has been a perennial bestseller since its initial publication in 1954, and will be sure to enjoy a surge of renewed popularity as fans of E.L. James's Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day's Bared to You eagerly search for the next big thing.

The notorious novel of dark obsession
 
How far will a woman go to express her love? In this exquisite novel of passion and desire, the answer emerges through a daring exploration of the deepest bonds of sensual domination. “O” is a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer, determined to understand and prove her consuming devotion to her lover, René, through complete submission to his every whim, his every desire.
 
It is a journey of forbidden, dangerous choices that sweeps her through the secret gardens of the sexual underground. From the inner sanctum of a private club where willing women are schooled in the art of subjugation to the excruciating embraces of René’s friend Sir Stephen, O tests the outermost limits of pleasure. For as O discovers, true freedom lies in her pure and complete willingness to do anything for love.
  • Published: 26 March 2013
  • ISBN: 9780345545343
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Pauline Reage

Pauline Réage is the pseudonym of Anne Desclos, a French journalist and novelist. Story of O was first published in 1954, to much controversy and speculation as to the identity of the author. Desclos publicly admitted that she was the author of Story of O forty years after it was first published. She died in 1998.

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Praise for Story of O

  • "Reage succeeds in drawing us irresistibly into her perverse world through the magnetism of her own selfless absorption in it. Like some exquisitely balanced, gently undulating instrument, she carefully inscribes the cruel shocks inflicted on her heroine's refined sensibility--and we believe." --New York Times Book Review
  • "An ironic fable of unfreedom, a mystic document that transcends the pornographic and even the erotic...[it] is so horrifying, outraging cherished beliefs in the sanctity of the body and in personal freedom...To give the body, to allow it to be ravaged, exploited and totally possessed, can be an act of consequence." --Newsweek
  • "Depending on your erotic wishes and habits, Story of O will disturb you, frighten you, make you angry, make you upset, confuse you, disgust you, or turn you on. Maybe everything at once. Decades after its publication, the novel has not lost its shock value." --Guernica

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