Marquis D Argens: 4 books

As a young but precocious lady, Therese always suspected that there were pleasures to be had of the flesh. So when she espies her teacher Father Dirrag manipulating fellow student Eradice's buttocks with the 'Holy Rod', before copulating with the devout girl in the most lascivious of ways, Therese's...

Sie leben hinter streng abgeschlossenen Klostermauern, aber sie fühlen sich dort nicht wohl. Sie lieben das Leben und die Liebe, und sie wissen auch, wie sie sich die Freuden verschaffen können, nach denen sie sich so sehnen. Denn Liebe macht erfinderisch, und deshalb gelingt es den verliebten Nonnen,...

The Classical dictum that literature must have a dual function--to please and to instruct--is delightfully realized in this eighteenth century work that provocatively combines a teasing sensuality with philosophical concerns. The formal, witty language of the period and the anticlerical metaphysics of...

This first-person narrative by Therese is the charming tale of an innocent's initiation into sexual happiness. Self-discovery in a convent leads her to her confessor, Father Dirrag, and she is soon launched upon the path of reason that convinces her that passion and love of the Deity are equal gifts...