Syta's Harem and Pharaoh's Lover

Presented here for the first time in English in fabulous translations by Brian Stableford are two exotic novels by Jane La Vaudère one of Frances most interesting and most Decadent writers.In the first Sytas Harem we are taken to a proto-anthropological India to an ancient kingdom which is ruled by Princess Syta a beautiful woman idolized by the members of her male harem over whom she exercises tyrannical authority. The novel soon becomes a surreal phantasmagoria featuring religiously-impelled orgies bloody sacrifices and mysterious fakirs.The second novel Pharaohs Lover placed in ancient Egypt during the Third Empire of Thutmose I is a bizarre masterpiece of the highest order. In it the reader learns of the misadventures of Zelinis and Hary-Thé who in the aftermath of the sudden loss of their perfect amour become the subject of rather eccentric liaisons--Zelinis as a slave is made to be a stimulant to the effete Pharaoh by engaging in romance with the latters sister while Hary-Thé carries on a quasi-necrophlic relationship with a mummy.These two exotic fantasies in the feverish pitch of their narratives and the voluptuousness of their settings are sure to delight and entertain all those who have sympathy for unusual expressions of passionate distress.