Painful Pleasures

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Auteur / Author : Foreword by Meusal, Walter J. (translator)

Titre / Title : Painful Pleasures, translated out of the French and adapted from the English by W. J. Meusal, with a foreword by the translator

Éditeur / Publisher : Privately Printed For Collectors Only [ Gargoyle Press ]

Lieu d’édition / Place of Publication : s.l. [New York]

Année d’édition originale / First Year of Publication : 1931

Année d’édition / Year of Publication : 1931

Période / Period : XXe siècle / 20th Century, (1930-1939)

Nombre de pages / Number of Pages : 283

Illustrateur / Illustrator : Heuber, Francis

Illustration : 10 illustrations hors-texte, 8 bandeaux, culs-de-lampe N&B. / 10 full page B&W illustrations, 8 head and tail pieces.

Langue / Language : Langue anglaise / English Language

Caractéristiques / Specifications : Édition limitée. / Edition limited to 1000 copies, of which this is No 650. Cover of orange cloth over a black pebble-cloth spine. Ex libris of previous owner inside.

Notes : Painful Pleasures is an adaptation and translation of extracts from the French work Fustigations vécues by Jean de Villiot (Paris, Charles Carrington, 1907) and various letters from the Correspondance section of works published by Jean Fort in the Collection des Orties Blanches, like Jacques d'Icy's Paulette trahie (ca. 1924).

Paradoxically, most of the texts contained in Fustigations vécues are English texts translated in French: some of the 'Eight Genuine Letters' are a translation of Indecent Whipping (1885). The chapters from Le Fouet by H. Baker are from an English work of unknown origin. Other short stories like 'Flagellations at Clifton' and 'The Adventure of Miss Flossie Evans' may very well also be translations from English works.

Reissued in 1995 by Delectus Books with a cover illustration by Gerda Wegener.

Référence / Reference : BL: P.C.15.df.9. (this copy has only 279 pp.)

KI: 813.0 P148 1931

Résumé / Summary : Content [French equivalent]: Is It Good or Bad? [Le Fouet par H. Baker, Est-ce bon ou mauvais ?], Some Other Views.[Le Fouet par H. Baker, Une autre méthode], Eight Genuine Letters [Fustigations vécues, Correspondance], Flagellations at Clifton. [Le Scandale de flagellation de Clifton], The Adventure of Miss Flossie Evans. [L'Aventure de Miss Flossie Evans], A Hunting Experience. [Une aventure de chasse], Discipline at Paramé. [Fessées provinciales], The Extraordinary Courtship of Hector Demerre [Le Mariage au bord de l'eau].

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Mots clés : Sadomasochisme, Sadisme féminin, Masochisme féminin, Masochisme masculin
 Keywords : Sadomasochism, Female Sadism, Female Masochism, Male Masochism

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