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Set in 19th-century Galicia, the narrative follows Wenzel, a young man whose love for the local judge's daughter leads to rejection and radicalization. Joining a revolutionary group against Austrian rule, Wenzel faces arrest and trial by a people's court. The story explores themes of love, political struggle, and the legitimacy of popular justice, raising profound questions about morality and authority. This work, originally published in 1882, is presented as a facsimile reprint, preserving its cultural significance.

DIVSeverin is a young Galician nobleman with a secret; he can only love a woman with a ruthless heart, who will rain her whip upon him in a shower of bloody kisses. When he meets Wanda, the wealthy and beautiful widow living in the apartment upstairs, he wonders if she might be the one to help him realize his darkest desires. But Wanda is better than she ever dreamed possible at domination—and soon Severin realizes he is powerless to escape what he has begun. Here, fantasy and reality writhe together in a ceaseless, fraught embrace. First published in 1870, the author defined—and unwittingly gave his own name to—that sexual proclivity we know as masochism in this understated, charged erotic classic.DIVDIVDIVLeopold Von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian writer of fiction and short stories whose masterpiece inspired a famous song of the same name by The Velvet Underground, and continues to be referred to as a defining work within the realm of erotic literature.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895), whose name has been immortalized in the term masochism, is known today predominantly for his novel Venus in Furs and for his tales of dominant women and suffering men. In his own lifetime, however, he was also famous as the author of vibrant tales from Galicia, the exotic eastern edge of the Austrian empire, where he championed the cause of the region's most oppressed minorities, the Ruthenians and the Jews. This collection features some of his best-known Jewish tales which display the authors warm sense of humanity as well as his considerable sense of humor. Sacher-Masoch's unusual ability to capture the essence of a person or place with a telling detail brings the vanished world of Galician Jewry back to life in all its splendor and squalor, mixing the grays, browns, and blacks of European Realism with the bright, sparkling colors of legend, myth, fairy tale, and tradition. Sacher-Masoch's work is currently enjoying a revival among scholars and general readers alike.Contents: Sacher Masoch Remembered by Carl Spitteler; The Jewish Sects in Galicia; The Red Pepperman's Evil Spirit; Hasara Raba; My Tailor Abrahamek; A Light for Others; Pintschev and Mintschev; Afterword by Translator.