Pierre Louÿs has written at least 21 books. Their most popular book is The Songs of Bilitis with 3 saves with an average rating of -⭐.
They are best known for writing in the genres Classics, Poetry, and erotica.
Pierre Louÿs, pseudonym of Pierre Louis (born Dec. 10, 1870, Ghent, Belgium—died June 4, 1925, Paris, France), French novelist and poet whose merit and limitation were to express pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection.
Louÿs frequented Parnassian and Symbolist circles and was a friend of the composer Claude Debussy. He founded short-lived literary reviews, notably La Conque (1891). His Chansons de Bilitis (1894), prose poems about Sapphic love, purporting to be translations from the Greek, deceived even experts. Aphrodite (1896), a novel depicting courtesan life in ancient Alexandria, made him famous. His best novel is La Femme et le pantin (1898; Woman and Puppet), which is set in Spain. Louÿs’s popularity, which rested more on his eroticism than on purely aesthetic grounds, has faded.
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1894 • 3 Readers • 192 pages
2013 • 2 Readers • 231 pages
1898 • 1 Reader
1919 • 1 Reader • 138 pages • 5
1926 • 1 Reader • 4
1898 • 1 Reader • 3
1898 • 1 Reader • 128 pages
1 Reader
1926 • 1 Reader
1927 • 1 Reader • 142 pages
1903 • 1 Reader
1901 • 1 Reader
2011 • 1 Reader
1894 • 195 pages
2007 • 218 pages
2010 • 60 pages
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1992 • 336 pages