PLEASURE-MAD

"Energetic and earthy ... BITTER DESTINY carries an orphan boy through a childhood of squalor and degredation, and the prostitution of his talents ... to a tragic and unregretted end." - THE NATION

In this savagely realistic novel, a cynical, reckless young man is exposed to every temptation in the depraved underworld of modern Rome.

From his seduction by a precocious and passionate girl, to a dangerous liason with his own daughter's governess - nothing is omitted in this dramatic and relentless portrayal of a man's descent to the lower depths.

POPULAR LIBRARY EDITION
Published in April, 1955

© 1953, A.A.Wyn, Inc

"Mr Bates reveals love - the love of a man for a woman, and, but mostly 'or', the other way around - as something made up of complex emotions, desire, tenderness, jealousy, generosity, hate, selfishness."
CHATTANOOGA TIMES

THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED

DULCIE longed for money and desire - and sought them from two men...

SARA sought pleasure with no strings attached - and picked a married man to give it to her...

VERA wanted a lover so she could tantalize her straying husband - and found one in his handsome assisstant...

POPULAR LIBRARY EDITION
Published in April, 1955

© 1953 by H.E.Bates