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Elephantasm
Elephantasm
Author: Tanith Lee
Sixteen-year-old Annie Ember lives in grinding poverty in the city...until one day in a mysterious shop she discovers a tiny and ancient ivory elephant. The subsequent murder of her sister's husband leaves Annie homeless, and she is found employment in a country house far away. Sir Hampton Smolte returned from India with a great fortune--and a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780440218104
ISBN-10: 0440218101
Publication Date: 1/1/1996
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Publisher: Dell
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Bound as a slave, sixteen-year-old Annie Ember is plunged into a world of perversion and dark obsession. Here, in Hampton Smolte's dream house, she will feel her skin raked by an ivory claw, know the dampness of sweat upon a bed sheet, hear a cry inthe night - of a dying creature, or a woman's pleasure. And here, in this place of eroticism and decadence, violence and cruelty, the scullery maid will unlock the truth of her freedom and her power - vast, deathless, fantastic as the continent from which it was born...


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