Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Gladiators and whores, dancers and acrobats--the insatiable lust of an empress and the cruelty of the Circus. All this and much more swirl through the pages of The Latin Orgy, a key text of the decadent fiction, and the author, F licien Champsaur's, most successful work.
Here translated into English for the first time, is Champsaur's superbly evocative masterpiece of scandal, which plunges the reader into a Rome of debauchery and blood, in which--and martyrs are thrown to wild beasts.... A canvas of lust and cruelty. Violence