Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners for Use in Educational Establishments

A bestselling author in his time, Pierre Louÿs (1870–1925) was a friend of, and influence on, André Gide, Paul Valéry, Oscar Wilde and Stephane Mallarmé among others. He achieved instant notoriety with Aphrodite and The Songs of Bilitis, but it was only after his death that Louÿs'' true legacy was to be discovered: nearly 900 pounds of erotic manuscripts were found in his home, all of them immedia...