Our Lady of Pain -1st Edition/1st Impression
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: [London]: Quercus, 2008.
ISBN: 1847243592
Our Lady of Pain -1st Edition/1st Impression
An elegant first edition/first Impression in Fine condition with cocked spine and trivial page edge soiling in alike dust-wrapper with minor edgewear. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication by author Elena Forbes directly on the title page.
This novel is set in a future Rome where the Catholic Church has fallen and the Vatican is in ruins. The main character, a teenage girl, is a slave in the palace of the Emperor. One day, she is given a new job as a servant in the Emperor's private chambers. She soon discovers that the Emperor is a sadistic man who enjoys inflicting pain on his victims. The Emperor's wife, the Empress, is a cruel woman who enjoys watching her husband torture people. The Empress has a daughter, also a cruel woman, who is in charge of the Emperor's harem. The teenage girl soon becomes the Empress's favorite slave, and she begins to enjoy inflicting pain on her victims.; 8vo; 359 pages; Signed by Author.
Price: $60.00
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