Book description
He lusts and kills in equal measure.
The brutal Don Juan - an unrepentant sinner - makes a pact with the
Virgin of the Seven Daggers. He promises to forever proclaim her
supreme beauty and asks that in return she save him from damnation.
Emboldened by the deal and driven by insatiable greed, he embarks on
a necromantic journey to an enchanted palace beneath the Alhambra. In
an orgy of beasts, demons and slumbering infantas Don Juan is called
upon to uphold his side of the bargain and in doing so lose everything
his lustful heart desires.
VERNON LEE as born Violet Paget in 1856. Although best remembered for
the bewitching ghost stories she wrote between 1881 and 1913, she was
also a fervent pacifist who wrote extensively and innovatively on the
art of writing and the morality of art itself. She died in 1935.
