The Image/The Whip Angels

Collected in one volume: two women, spouses to

French literary figures, setting out to top their husbands in every

way possible. The Image, by "Jean de Berg" (Catherine Robbe-Grillet)

so thrilled her husband, a somewhat better-known Alain, that he wrote

a nifty preface to her work, signing off as "Pauline Reage." And Diane

Bataille, who'd heard quite enough about her spouse, author and erotic

bibliographer Georges, decided one day to pen The Whip Angels, having

it published by Maurice Girodias' infamous Olympia Press under the

name "XXX." These two classic works of sexuality were published in '55

and '56, bookending the Story of O. The Olympia Press is pleased to

bring both of these classics of female-penned BDSM in a single

edition.