"As the shadows grew long and dusk was approaching, 17-year-old Daniel Webster Wallace climbed the rafters of the barn. There, he took out a pocketknife and carved his name into one of the wooden beams. Webster, as he was known to family and friends, wanted to leave a permanent mark of his being there because the next day he was saying goodbye to the Texas cotton farm where he grew up."This ain't your typical cowboy story. That's because Daniel Webster Wal...

Bataille's first novel: a legendary shocker that uncovers the dark side of the erotic by means of forbidden obsessive fantasies of excess and sexual extremes.A classic of pornographic literature, Story of the Eye finds the parallels in Sade and Nietzsche and in the investigations of contemporary psychology; it also forecasts Bataille's own theories of ecstasy, death and transgression which he developed in later work."Bataille's works … indicated th...