Tentative Melodies

To say it all in the fewest words, Vivien is the lesbian Baudelaire. With the necrophile eros of Edgar Allan Poe, the decadent opulence of a Symbolist painter, and the pride of a Sapphic satan, this book will plunge you, as no other, into the fevered dream of Well of Loneliness Paris.Bilingual, facing page French and English

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