[Item #25525] The Wantons. Lieta HARRISON, trans Diana Fussell.

The Wantons

London: Ortolan PRess, [1966]. First English Language Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original simulated cloth in white pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 140pp. Rear jacket panel a bit rubbed, else Fine. "A Searing Study of the Humiliation of Women in Modern Sicily" (jacket cover). Based on over 600 interviews with Sicilian men and women, namely regarding the custom of the "crime of honour," the redeeming act of murdering one's lover or rapist.

Price: $35.00

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