Emmanuelle

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With Story of O, this classic erotic book is the most famous French underground novel of the late 20th century, a work of seductive literary merit. It appears an autobiographical novel by a French Foreign Service diplomat's wife. It opens as Emmanuelle flys from London to rejoin her husband in Bangkok. Compelled by an overnight passenger seated beside her, her irrepressible nature opens vistas of sensual possibility. She moves easily from her spouse's arms to intimacies with his business associates' wives & to further explorations in which subtle erotic aesthetics are fully expounded & enacted. Selling millions of copies since a clandestine French publication, Emmanuelle shows a woman's progress from unconscious to profoundly conscious sexuality.