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Mit einem kritischen Nachwort zur Neuübersetzung von Lilian Peter Isadora Wing, jüdische Lyrikerin und Journalistin aus der Upper West Side von New York City, ist an einem Scheideweg angelangt. Nach fünf Jahren Ehe reizen sie viele Dinge: Männer reizen sie, Einsamkeit reizt sie und Sex reizt sie. Als sie trotz ihrer Flugangst mit ihrem Mann zu einer Psychoanalytiker-Konferenz nach Wien reist, stürzt sie sich dort kurzerhand in eine Affäre mit seinem Kollegen Adrian. Es beginnt eine Reise, die sie im Zickzackkurs durch Europa, zu sexuellen Abenteuern und letztlich zu sich selbst führt.

Originally published in 1973, the groundbreaking, uninhibited story of Isadora Wing and her desire to fly free caused a national sensation. In The New York Times, Henry Miller compared it to his own classic, Tropic of Cancer and predicted that ""this book will make literary history..."" It has...

When the beautiful Jessica Pruitt arrives in Venice to star in a film based on The Merchant of Venice, she is preoccupied: She has recently lost custody of her daughter, and as an older actress she is increasingly aware of the difficulty of landing leading roles. One day, as she wanders through an old Jewish ghetto, Jessica is magically transported to 16th-century Venice where she finds herself the heroine of "Will" Shakespeare's play. Immediately attracted to the younger playwright, Jessica enters into an intensely passionate love affair that defies time and place.

The radio premiere of Erica Jong's uninhibited feminist classic about female sexuality. Isadora Wing has been married to psycho-analyst Bennett for five years. But she has become restless and yearns for men, for solitude, and for the perfect, guiltless, ‘zipless f**k’. Having overcome her...

'I loved Fear of Dying. I found it irreverent, funny, tender and very wise and it made me feel more alive' RACHEL JOYCE, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry The new novel from the author of the iconic international bestseller Fear of Flying 'The book that started it all by the woman who...

Soñadora compulsiva, acosadora de psiquiatras y autora de poemas eróticos, Isadora Wing tiene fobia a volar, pero no va a permitir que el miedo le impida subirse a un avión. Durante un viaje a Viena para asistir a un congreso sobre psicoanálisis junto a su marido psiquiatra, conoce a un desinhibido analista que parece la encarnación de su ideal erótico. Ese encuentro le permitirá alejarse de su marido para emprender una búsqueda de su propia forma de liberación.

This mesmerizing saga of modern womanhood and the heroic struggle for freedom is vividly brought to life through four generations of remarkable mothers and daughters. In the year 2005, Sarah finds herself drawn into the tumultuous lives of her unconventional ancestors. Spanning a hundred years...

Erica Jongs berømte og kontroversielle debutroman fra 1973. Isidora Wing drømmer om "det gnidningsløse knald" - fri for engagement, magtkamp og fortrydelse. Hun falder for en englænder, som hun tror er svaret på hendes erotiske fantasier.

Den sandfærdige historie om Fanny Hill og hendes eventyrlige oplevelser.

Life has always been a banquet for Sappho, one to be savored to the fullest. Following a magnificent destiny, her strange and sensual odyssey has carried her to the far corners of the ancient world, from Delphi to Egypt, to the Land of the Amazons, and the realm of Hades. For Sappho, it was always about love—love that seduced her into a plot to depose a dictator, and love that made her trade an unwanted marriage bed of a despised and drunken husband for a seemingly endless series of lovers, both male and female. 

In the opening of Holding Silvan: A Brief Life, Monica Wesolowska gives birth to her first child, a healthy-seeming boy who is taken from her arms for "observation" when he won't stop crying. Within days, Monica and her husband have been given the grimmest of prognoses for Silvan, and they must make a choice about his life. The story that follows is not a story of typical maternal heroism. There is no medical miracle here. Instead, we find the strangest of hopes.

Although most famous for her bestselling fiction, including Fear of Flying and Any Woman's Blues, Erica Jong started her publishing career as a poet. The celebrated author enjoys an international reputation for her verse. An essential collection of poetry, Becoming Light includes early poems previously uncollected in book form, selections from her previous books, and many new poems. Erica Jong's poetry exhibits her rare gifts for inventiveness, wit, vigor, honesty, and accessibility. Critics have generously praised Jong's unique poetic voice.

Discovered on the doorstep of a country estate in Wiltshire, England, the infant Fanny is raised to womanhood by her adoptive parents, Lord and Lady Bellars. Fanny wants to become the epic poet of the age, but her plans are dashed when she is ravished by her libertine stepfather. Fleeing to London, Fanny falls in with idealistic witches and highwaymen who teach her of worlds she never knew existed. After toiling in a London brothel that caters to literati, Fanny embarks on a series of adventures that teach her what she must know to live and prosper as a woman.