Aphrodite by Pierre Louys (1933) Vintage Hardcover Book
Aphrodite by Pierre Louys (1933) Vintage Hardcover Book
“‘Thy tongue is the bleeding dagger that stabbed the wound of thy mouth.’
"’My tongue is incrusted with precious stones. It is red in the reflection of my lips.’"
Louys’s famous story of the courtesan of Alexandria is as unashamedly voluptuous as it is true to the period of antiquity in which it transpires. When Aphrodite first appeared a storm of wrath was whipped up by the guardians of morality. Today Aphrodite is accepted by discriminating readers on its own merits as a novel of sensual beauty, written in a rapturous prose, without shame and without sin.
Author: Pierre Louys
Title: Aphrodite
Edition: No edition remarks
Published: New York: Modern Library, 1933
Physical Description: Hardcover; Duodecimo; 264p
Condition: Good condition dust jacket with edge wear, chipping and heavy toning and mild staining—in protector. Boards and spine mostly clean with some fading around edges, edge wear, and crushing at spine ends. Binding solid and square. Pages tanned.
Comments: Solid copy