EDITH TEMPLETON

GORDON was banned in Europe when it was first published in the late 1960s, and now it has been reissued. The story of the sadomasochistic affair between Richard Gordon, a psychiatrist, and a woman named Louisa, it is both an erotic journey and a psychological one.

Londres 1946. Louisa -una mujer joven y atractiva, a punto de divorciarse- conoce en un pub a un hombre que le resulta fascinante y repulsivo. Una hora más tarde él la posee, en un acto repentino y b

The original Fifty Shades of Grey, Edith Templetons novel Gordon has been banned, pirated and published under various names for almost fifty yearsPost-war London. Louisa, a smartly dressed young woman in the midst of a divorce, meets a charismatic man in a pub, and within an hour has been sexually conquered by him on a garden bench. Thus begins her baffling but magnetic love affair with Richard Gordon.Gordon, a psychiatrist, keeps Louisa in his thrall with his almost omniscient ability to see through her, and she is equally gripped by the unexpected pleasure of complete submission. Subjecting herself to repeated humiliations at his hands, but quite unable and unwilling to free herself from his control, Louisa and Gordon sink further and further into the depths - both psychologically and sexually.An extraordinary novel of psycho-sexual entanglement that was banned for indecency in England in 1966, in Gordon, Edith Templeton captures one of the most unusual and disturbing love stories ever written.Templetons characters are not passive or self-doubting. Their pleasure in sexual submission is a mark of their toughness: they can take what their men give themTheNew York TimesSexual perversion, masochistic dependency, obsession and suicideTelegraphAn unsettling tale of sexual obsessionTheNew YorkerIt is unlikely that any young woman will write a book as good, as honest, as provocative as GordonTelegraphSuperbly written and unsettling Beryl BainbridgeEdith Templeton was born in Prague in 1916 and spent much of her childhood in a castle in the Bohemian countryside. Her short stories began to appear in The New Yorker in the 1950s and caused a major stir because of their sexual explicitness (these stories are available in one volume entitled The Darts of Cupid as a Penguin ebook). Gordon first appeared in 1966 under the pseudonym Louise Walbrook and was subsequently banned in England and Germany; it was then pirated around the world, appearing under various titles. In 2001, Edith Templeton agreed to publish the novel, with its original title, under her own name. She died in 2006.

The highly-acclaimed short story collection by the author of Gordon, the erotic novel banned for indecency in 1966In The Darts of Cupid, Edith Templeton gives a sweeping and intimate exposé of her century and the lives of the women who lived in it. The unforgettable title story was celebrated upon its original publication in The New Yorker for its explicit portrayal of the relationship between a young British woman and her American superior in a provincial war office during World War II - a love affair that lasted only two nights but changed the narrators life forever, and is still haunting today. Other stories take us from the tumbledown glamour of a Bohemian castle between the wars to an apartment on the coast of Italy in the 1990s, where a rich widows decision to sell her husbands prized silver becomes a bewitching tale of longing. Whatever the period, Templeton addresses the truth about female passion with a forthright gaze that is rare for any age.[Templetons stories] make the flesh tingleObserverTempletons characters are not passive or self-doubting. Their pleasure in sexual submission is a mark of their toughness: they can take what their men give themTheNew York TimesDark, compelling and invigoratingly unsettlingSunday TimesEdith Templeton was born in Prague in 1916 and spent much of her childhood in a castle in the Bohemian countryside. Her short stories began to appear in The New Yorker in the 1950s and caused a major stir because of their sexual explicitness (these stories are available in one volume entitled The Darts of Cupid as a Penguin ebook). Gordon first appeared in 1966 under the pseudonym Louise Walbrook and was subsequently banned in England and Germany; it was then pirated around the world, appearing under various titles. In 2001, Edith Templeton agreed to publish the novel, with its original title, under her own name. She died in 2006.