The Gardens of the Night: A Victorian Novel - Anonymous - 1985 85th Grove Press Inc. Paperback

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Blurb: “Anonymous with an Afterword by Lynn Paula Russell

From the febrile imagination of the author of the famed Victorian classic, The Days at Moroille, comes this voluptuous sequel continuing the tale of a young woman's journey into erotic servility. Casting aside reserve, pride, and "good sense," like the brave heroine of Story of 0, Lesley submits to the perverse demands of her machiavellian lover Anton.

In doing so, she achieves not only her own self-mastery, but the very apogee of pleasure. Presented in the Afterword is a conversation with present-day English artist Lynn Paula Russell who, in the words of her interviewer, has "perhaps a better right than anyone to be the subject of The Story of the Real O."”