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In La Vaudère’s first venture into exotic erotica,
the Java-set Three Flowers of Sensuality (1900), we follow Stéphane,
a French artist abroad, and his adventures with three dancing girl sisters
who have been kept and raised in closed religious communities dedicated
to the celebration of female deities. In the second novel in the present
volume, The King of Siam’s Amazon (1902), which might have
been partly inspired by Octave Mirbeau’s Torture Garden, we
are confronted with La Vaudère’s most extreme and nightmarish
tale, which, in its deployment of atrocious imagery, makes Mirbeau’s
novel look tame.
Cover by Johannes Frederik Engelbert ten Klooster
Published by Snuggly Books in November 2019
ISBN: 978-1-64525-018-0
