Delta of Venus by Anais Nin

As influential and revelatory in its day as Fifty Shades of Grey is now, Delta of Venus, a collection of erotic short stories, conjures up a glittering cascade of sexual encounters.

Creating her own 'language of the senses', writer Anaïs Nin explores an area that was previously the domain of male writers and brings to it her own unique perceptions. Her vibrant and impassioned prose evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning.

This edition includes a preface adapted from Anaïs Nin's diary that establishes a context for the work's gestation, and a postscript to her diary entries in which she explains her desire to use 'women's language, seeing sexual experience from a woman's point of view'.