The Latin Orgy

Gladiators and whores, dancers and acrobats—the insatiable lust of an empress and the cruelty of the Circus. All this and much more swirl through the pages of The Latin Orgy, a key text of the decadent fiction, and the author, Félicien Champsaur’s, most successful work.

Here translated into English for the first time, is Champsaur’s superbly evocative masterpiece of scandal, which plunges the reader into a Rome of debauchery and blood, in which—and martyrs are thrown to wild beasts…. A canvas of lust and cruelty. Violence