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First translation into English of Gabriele D'Annunzio's earliest masterpiece. The Book of the Virgins is one of D'Annunzio's very first collections. Remarkable for its descriptive powers, and almost unbearably vivid in colour and detail, it is a compelling account of self-knowledge and coming-of-age. Recovering from a near-fatal illness, a young woman feels drawn to experience for herself all that life has to offer. Spurning her old saintly ways, she determines to explore the beauty and energy in everything around her. But as she senses the first stirrings of passion, so too comes tragedy, and with it, the realisation that to truly live, she must embrace life in all its brutality.
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A spinster lies dying of typhus, her virgin body shrivelled and corrupted by disease. The priest performs extreme unction – no hope is held out for recovery. But Giuliana does not die, and gradually her life returns: first a ravenous hunger, then a repairing of the flesh, finally a total spiritual renewal. She is left a newborn adult, sensually aware, all taste for her past chaste life gone; but this new hyper-sensitivity, coupled with a complete sexual innocence, heralds an awakening of tragic proportions.
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First translation into English of Gabriele D'Annunzio's earliest masterpiece. The Book of the Virgins is one of D'Annunzio's very first collections. Remarkable for its descriptive powers, and almost unbearably vivid in colour and detail, it is a compelling account of self-knowledge and coming-of-age. Recovering from a near-fatal illness, a young woman feels drawn to experience for herself all that life has to offer. Spurning her old saintly ways, she determines to explore the beauty and energy in everything around her. But as she senses the first stirrings of passion, so too comes tragedy, and with it, the realisation that to truly live, she must embrace life in all its brutality.
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A spinster lies dying of typhus, her virgin body shrivelled and corrupted by disease. The priest performs extreme unction – no hope is held out for recovery. But Giuliana does not die, and gradually her life returns: first a ravenous hunger, then a repairing of the flesh, finally a total spiritual renewal. She is left a newborn adult, sensually aware, all taste for her past chaste life gone; but this new hyper-sensitivity, coupled with a complete sexual innocence, heralds an awakening of tragic proportions.
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