'STORY OF O - notorious as an underground novel, remarkable as a rare instance of pornography sublimated to purest art - appeared first under mysterious circumstances at Paris in 1954... STORY OF O is neither a fantasy nor a case history. With its alternate beginnings and endings; its simple direct style (like that of a fable); its curious air of abstraction, of independence from time, place and personality, what it resembles most is a legend - the spiritual history of a saint and martyr... Commencing with the simplest of situations, the story gradually opens out into a Daedalian maze of perverse relationships - a clandestine society of sinister formality and elegance where the primary bond is mutual complicity in dedication to the pleasures of sadism and masochism....' - New York Times Book Review

Originally published in Great Britain by The Olympia Press (England) Ltd
Olympia Press edition published 1970
This edition 1976

One of the most significant films of the past ten years is I Am Curious - Yellow, which was made by the Swedish director, Vilgot Sjöman, whose earlier films included My Sister, My Love and 491. Wherever the film has been shown in Europe - in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, and now in the United States - it has been acclaimed by critics as an important work of art in its honest and forthright portrayal of the social, political, and sexual problems of today's youth.
This volume presents the full text of the scenario, together with 266 stills from the picture. Also included is an appendix of pertinent testimony about the film by key witnesses in the U.S. District Court case.

Translated from the Swedish by Martin Minow & Jenny Bohman.
© 1968 by Grove Press Inc.
An Evergreen Black Cat Book

Emmanuelle Arsan is the pseudonym of a beautiful young Eurasian - Maryat Rollet-Andriane, the wife of a member of the French delegation at UNESCO who had previously served at a diplomatic post in Bangkok. Her frank, liberated view of the human sexual impulse has brought her international fame and has turned her into a controversial figure on both sides of the Atlantic. Distinguished critic Françoise Giroud of L'Express wrote of her that she 'preaches the "erotic revolution" as seriously as others preach in today's China "the cultural revolution".' The best-selling Emmanuelle novels have been turned into films that have broken box-office records all over the world and set new standards for the erotic cinema.

Translated by Lowell Blair

Published by Grafton Books 1975
This edition 1988
First published in Great Britain by Hart-Davis MacGibbon Ltd 1975
© Eric Losfeld Le Terrain Vague 1975