The Virgin of the Seven Daggers: Excursions into Fantasy (Pocket Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Lee, Vernon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141038780 ISBN 13: 9780141038780

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2008

Synopsis

He lusts and kills in equal measure.

The brutal Don Juan – an unrepentant sinner – makes a pact with the Virgin of the Seven Daggers. He promises to forever proclaim her supreme beauty and asks that in return she save him from damnation.

Emboldened by the deal and driven by insatiable greed, he embarks on a necromantic journey to an enchanted palace beneath the Alhambra. In an orgy of beasts, demons and slumbering infantas Don Juan is called upon to uphold his side of the bargain and in doing so lose everything his lustful heart desires.

About this title

About the Author:

VERNON LEE as born Violet Paget in 1856. Although best remembered for the bewitching ghost stories she wrote between 1881 and 1913, she was also a fervent pacifist who wrote extensively and innovatively on the art of writing and the morality of art itself. She died in 1935.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0141038780
• ISBN 13: 9780141038780
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 240