About the book: 2014 / Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch created plays, feuilletons, and stories on historical topics. But his novels and stories brought him worldwide fame, where the main theme is the abuse of a despotic woman over a weak man; at the same time, a man receives pleasure from physical and emotional violence from a woman (masochism). The collection includes the most popular work - “Venus in Furs” (1870), written after the writer’s difficult break with his lover, Fanny von Pistor; the stories “Moonlit Night”, “Plato’s Love”, as well as stories from the series “Demonic Women”....In the garden on a moonlit night, Severin meets Venus - her name is Vanda von Dunaeva. She gives the stone statue of the goddess to wear her fur cloak and invites Severin to become her slave. Severin is ready for anything! Soon Wanda appears before him in an ermine jacket with a whip in her hands. Hit. “Beat me without any mercy!” A hail of blows. “Get out of my sight, slave!” Tormenting days - Wanda's arrogant coldness, rare caresses, long separations. Then an agreement was made: Wanda has the right to torture him at her every whim or even kill him if she wants. Severin writes a note, dictated by Wanda, about his voluntary departure from life. Now his fate is in her lovely plump hands.