{"product_id":"9781604501292","title":"Venus In Furs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVenus In Furs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated from the German\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Fernanda Savage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVenus in Furs is a novella by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the best known of his works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe framing story concerns a man who dreams of speaking to Venus about love while she wears furs. The unnamed narrator tells his dreams to a friend, Severin, who tells him how to break himself of his fascination with cruel women by reading a manuscript, Memoirs of a Suprasensual Man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis manuscript tells of a man, Severin von Kusiemski, who is so infatuated with a woman, Wanda von Dunajew, that he asks to be her slave, and encourages her to treat him in progressively more degrading ways. At first Wanda does not understand or accede to the request, but after humouring Severin a bit she finds the advantages of the method to be interesting and enthusiastically embraces the idea, although at the same time she disdains Severin for allowing her to do so.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeverin describes his feelings during these experiences as suprasensuality. Severin and Wanda travel to Florence. Along the way, Severin takes the generic Russian servant's name of \"Gregor\" and the role of Wanda's servant. In Florence, Wanda treats him brutally as a servant, and recruits a trio of African women to dominate him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arc Manor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018342940912,"sku":"9781604501292","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781604501292_p0.jpg?v=1763827244","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781604501292","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}