Strachey, Lytton
by Ermyntrude and Esmeralda
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0812812654
- ISBN 13
- 9780812812657
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About This Item
New York. 1969. Stein & Day. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Tears & Small Pieces Missing. 0812812654. Illustrated by Erte. Introduction by Michael Holroyd. 77 pages. hardcover. Jacket Design by Bernard Schleifer. jacket drawing based on a design by Aubrey Beardsley. keywords: Literature England . FROM THE PUBLISHER - ERMYNTRUDE AND ESMERALDA was written as an exchange of correspondence between two teenage girls who have pledged themselves to find out all they can about sex, love, and making babies. Their reported discoveries include a passionate love affair between Esmeralda's younger brother and his male tutor (Will they have babies? If not, why not?'); Ermyntrude's affair with a handsome footman on a staircase; the attempted seduction of Ermyntrude by her governess. By using nursery terms for private parts of the anatomy (bow-wows and pussy cats will never sound the same), Strachey makes all the more ludicrous society's standard reaction of horror to sex and deviation. Wit, irony, exaggeration, melodrama, these were Lytton Strachey's methods in this recently discovered and never before published novella. It is when Strachey is not humorous that the reader should beware of taking him seriously. In ERMYNTRUDE AND ESMERALDA he is extremely amusing, but he was seeking more than mere enjoyment for his readers; he was seeking sexual enlightenment and toleration in a period that was hostile to the pleasures of the flesh, or at least hypocritical about them. inventory #6884 ISBN: 0812812654.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6884
- Title
- Strachey, Lytton
- Author
- Ermyntrude and Esmeralda
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0812812654
- ISBN 13
- 9780812812657
- Publisher
- Stein And Day
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1969
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