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White Stains by Aleister Crowley (2008, Trade Paperback)
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Variations of sodomy, pederasty, bestiality, and necrophilia are interwoven with gleeful blasphemy in this seminal collection of poetry by Aleister Crowley. Crowley's infamous first book, White Stains was clandestinely printed in 1898 by Leonard Smithers.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCreateSpace
ISBN-101440416192
ISBN-139781440416194
eBay Product ID (ePID)80483994
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhite Stains
Number of Pages112 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year2008
GenrePoetry
AuthorAleister Crowley
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight7.9 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal821.8
SynopsisVariations of sodomy, pederasty, bestiality, and necrophilia are interwoven with gleeful blasphemy in this seminal collection of poetry by Aleister Crowley. Inspired by Krafft-Ebing's study of sexual perversity, Psychopathia Sexualis, it purports to be "the literary remains of George Archibald Bishop, a neuropath of the Second Empire." Crowley's infamous first book, White Stains was clandestinely printed in 1898 by Leonard Smithers. Of the one hundred numbered copies that were originally printed, only a handful were spared destruction by Her Majesty's Customs; an outcome which speaks against Crowley's decision to invoke the blessing of the Virgin Mary in his prefatory sonnet. Crowley would go on to establish himself as a leading figure in the Western occult tradition. A drug addict, bisexual, and proponent of sex magick, Crowley's flamboyantly impious lifestyle would lead the tabloid press to crown him "The Wickedest Man in the World.", Branded "the most terrible man in England" in the 1920s, Aleister Crowley enjoyed a measure of notoriety in his lifetime that few would be able to match. White Stains, a collection of Crowley's poetry praised by W.B. Yeats, published in paperback for the first time, has been called 'the filthiest book of verse ever written' and of the first edition of 100 numbered copies, 83 were pulped and burned by Her Majesty's Customs in 1924.
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- 19 Dec, 2016
Good read, worth the time to re-evaluate Crowley works before insanity and sickness
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