Venus in Furs

NOTE: THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE E-BOOK. "And yet a restless, always unsatisfied craving for the nudity of paganism," she interrupted, "but that love, which is the highest joy, which is divine simplicity itself, is not for you moderns, you children of reflection. It works only evil in you. As soon as you wish to be natural, you become common. To you nature seems something hostile; you have made devils out of the smiling gods of Greece, and out of me a demon. You can only exorcise and curse me, or slay yourselves in bacchantic madness before my altar.Von Sacher-Masoch, Leopold is the author of 'Venus in Furs', published 2004 under ISBN 9781419292453 and ISBN 1419292455.