Sadomasochism and pain

Lesbia Brandon
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
with An historical and critical commentary being largely a study (and elevation) of Swinburne as a novelist, by Randolph Hughes
Publisher: Falcon Press
London, UK

Year


 		1952       
Cover / size: Hardback / h 24 cm * w 18 cm / 765 pp

Dustjacket?   no

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   001344

Condition Good

Cover: slight tear at top of spine; spine faded; slight soiling / marking. Page edges foxed. Endpapers foxed and small pencil notes. A few pages have slight foxing but most are clean.

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Swinburne: Lesbia Brandon






Content:

Swinburne's classic uncompleted novel of sadomasochism with extensive commentary and notes.


Background / Biography:

Algernon Charles Swinburne (London, 5 April 1837 - London, 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He invented the roundel form, wrote several novels, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in every year from 1903 to 1907 and again in 1909.
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"He made a last appeal, looking up at Denham's face.

'Please, sir, I wasn't in the water long. And it wasn't rough - not very. I promise I won't bathe again this year by myself.'

'I don't think you will, Herbert. I mean to make sure of that: and I advise you as a friend not to keep me waiting, or I shall have you hoisted; and then you must take the consequences. Go down' - and poor Bertie 'went down' after the manner of schoolboys at the block.

'Now mind, I mean to punish you severely; after an offence like this you can hardly expect to come off as easily as usual.'

He spoke in a clear harsh note, with brightening eyes and tightening lips, as he watched the boy wince; his words had edges and cut like a harsh look.

'Must I tie your hands? Or will you promise not to resist?'

'I won't move; or put my hands back: I won't, on my honour,' said the boy: but the first stroke made him leap and writhe, catching his breathe with a sharp sob: Denham knew better than to flog too fast; he paused after each cut and gave the boy time to smart."

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