EMMANUELLE (Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics)

A classic of its' time, entertaining enough.

There is only half of the story there, I thought it was the whole unexpurgated story and it is not.

basically dated porn

good condition

Great buy, arrived in good condition

Thank you

Read this & weep 50 shades.

Exactly what you expect

Beautifully written, classy, sexy and stimulating! So much has been written, through the years, about this book and its sequels, as well as "The Story of O", that I wish to mention here, what I find most interesting, is the back-story to its creation...I have read that Emmanuelle Arsan is the pen name of Marayat Bibidh and later known as Marayat Rollet-Andriane, born in Thailand. She was the wife of a French Diplomat, who could possibly be the actual writer of "Emmanuelle". In any case, the story is rumored to be somewhat autobiographical in nature. While no one knows for sure, with absolute certainty, it makes the reading of "Emmanuelle" that much more intriguing!

The novel Emmanuelle is a little vapid, but fun to read after seeing the soft-core film that came out in 1975. Actually, that first film spawned 6 additional Emmanuelle films in the next 15 years. Imagine a hot-blooded young French girl, who's barely old to vote, coming to Bangkok to join her new husband, who works in the French embassy. All the players in this little story are quite libidinous. After arriving, Emmanuelle proceeds to meet 3-4 women, all of whom she falls in love with, and her husband wants to see her expand her sexual horizons and sleep with some male companions he introduces her to. And the story goes on. It's a quick read, a good page turner. I enjoyed it. Now I'd like to go back and try to find a couple more titles from the Emmanuelle film collection on DVD.

CHILD PORNOGRAPHY? My comments about that weren't allowed by Amazon guidelines. Yet, this is their guideline on this."Some products containing sexual content and some sex and sensuality products are permitted to be sold on Amazon, and we encourage users to express their opinions about those products. Some sexual content such as nudity and sexually explicit images or descriptions is restricted because audiences within our Community may be sensitive to that content."This novel has at least 4 episodes where children in their young teens participate in sexual acts. I got sick to my stomach when I examined them. Sure, I could've stopped reading this novel, but I'm a researcher-writer, and Emmanuelle was a novel for my project. If it wasn't, and I could throw this book into the recycling bin, I would've done that. But it's an e-book! No pleasure there.Apart from that, there were lyrical and good descriptions of more tolerable events. Unbridled sex -- but no consequences, even for married Emmanuelle. No precautions taken--and no pregnancies and infections. No guilty consciences Oh, but about a 90-page conversation between three over-sexed adults who philosophically justify their actions, even with young boys. Gross - but worse -- BORING!What is my recommendation? Bottomline -- please don't support child pornography. That should be Amazon's take also.

I think the movie is better than the book. The book missed a lot of things that were in the movie. It was not as sensual as the movie but it was okay and worth reading

Very poor erotic writing. This is not worth your time or money.