The master masochist: Tales of sadistic mistresses;

by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

English, German (translation)

Genres: Fiction, 19th Century

190 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1968

About the author

Austrian writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name.
During his lifetime, Sacher-Masoch was well known as a man of letters, a utopian thinker who espoused socialist and humanist ideals in his fiction and non-fiction. Most of his works remain untranslated into English. The novel Venus in Furs is his only book commonly available in English.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_...