<div>The &ldquo;extraordinary&rdquo; #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling classic about women and marriage, &ldquo;at once wildly funny and very wise&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times). After five years, Isadora Wing has come to a crossroads in her marriage: Should she and her husband stay together or get divorced? Accompanying her husband to an analysts&rsquo; conference in Vienna, she ditches him and strikes out on her own, crisscrossing Europe in search of a man who can inspire uninhibited passion. But, as she comes to learn, liberation and happiness are not necessarily the same thing. A literary sensation when it was first published, Fear of Flying established Erica Jong as one of her generation&rsquo;s foremost voices on sex and feminism. Decades later, the novel has lost none of its insight, verve, or jaw-dropping wit. &ldquo;A winner . . . fearless and fresh, tender and exact.&rdquo; &mdash;John Updike, The New Yorker This ebook features a new introduction by Fay Weldon, as well as an illustrated biography of Erica Jong, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection</div>

Fear of Flying

<div>A courageous and enthralling collection of poems by Fear of Flying author Erica Jong celebrating life, art, sex, and womanhood seven lives,then webecome light . . . Erica Jong&rsquo;s novels are fearless and passionate. So, too, is her poetry. Though renowned&mdash;and sometimes vilified&mdash;for her unabashedly sensual fiction, the author considers herself a poet first and foremost. &ldquo;It was my poetry,&rdquo; Jong writes, &ldquo;that kept me sane, that kept me whole, that kept me alive.&rdquo; Becoming Light contains poems personally selected by Jong from her complete oeuvre of acclaimed published works&mdash;poems of love, sex, witches, gods, and demons; word-songs brimming with wit, heart, bitterness, sorrow, and truth. From the earliest poetic musings of a brilliant young artist first trying out her wings to later works born of experience and maturity, unpublished before appearing in this collection, Jong&rsquo;s pure artistry shines like a beacon as she writes, fearlessly and passionately, about being a woman, about being alive. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erica Jong including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Becoming Light

<div>An actress travels back in time to Venice and has a passionate affair with William Shakespeare, in this novel by a #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author. A glamorous Hollywood film star, Jessica Pruitt fears the best days of her career are behind her. Arriving in Italy soon after losing custody of her young daughter, she hopes to forget her woes by serving as a judge at the Venice Film Festival and immersing herself in preparations for her starring role in a new cinematic take on The Merchant of Venice. For the aging but still beautiful actress, this ancient, crumbling city of canals is the perfect escape, enchanting her with its history, its magic, and its mystery. Then one day, while strolling through the old Jewish quarter, she finds herself in a very different Venice&mdash;one that hasn&rsquo;t existed for five hundred years&mdash;as the heroine of a new theatrical endeavor by an enigmatic young playwright named Will Shakespeare. Suddenly, impossibly, Jessica has found a new beginning, a new audience&mdash;and, in the arms of a genius fledgling bard, a love affair more stimulating, satisfying, and liberating than any she will ever know, even five centuries on. Originally published as Serenissima, this &ldquo;hypnotic&rdquo; novel by the bestselling author of Fear of Flying is a magical tale set in a magical city, and a delightfully uninhibited love story that transcends time (The Washington Post Book World). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erica Jong including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Shylock's Daughter

<div>A &ldquo;rollicking and bawdy&rdquo; tale of eighteenth-century England, inspired by Fanny Hill, from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Fear of Flying (The Plain Dealer). Galloping from England to Africa to the high seas of the Caribbean, bestselling author Erica Jong&rsquo;s &ldquo;perverse epic&rdquo; follows the amorous adventures of a woman of pleasure and pluck (The New York Times). Falling in with randy highwaymen, witches, kidnappers, pirate queens, prostitutes, and such luminaries as Jonathan Swift, William Hogarth, and Alexander Pope, Fanny is seeking much more than fortune. In this unexpurgated &ldquo;memoir&rdquo; by the girl made famous in John Cleland&rsquo;s notorious Fanny Hill, our dauntless heroine finally reveals what really made her. Life begins somewhat ignobly for Fanny Hackabout-Jones. Abandoned as an infant on the doorstep of Lord and Lady Bellars&rsquo;s grand Wiltshire manor, she contemplates the literary life as she grows to ripe young womanhood. Fanny chooses, however, to pursue a very different future when she flees to London to escape the mortifying advances of her adoptive father. There, on the road, her life truly begins. Cast by pernicious Fate&mdash;and her own audacious will&mdash;into a series of astonishing escapades, Fanny learns that a woman&rsquo;s lot is not an easy one in these oppressive times. But she will not be discouraged, nor will she falter, on the uneven path toward notoriety, self-discovery, motherhood, and love. This is a delightful twist on classic literature&mdash;and &ldquo;Erica Jong was the right person to write it&rdquo; (Anthony Burgess, Saturday Review). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erica Jong including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Fanny

<div>The #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Fear of Flying brings the seductive Greek poet to life in this &ldquo;enormously entertaining&rdquo; tale (Booklist). As she stands poised at the edge of a precipice in the shadow of the sanctuary of Apollo, the greatest love poet who ever was or ever will be recalls the eventful fifty years that have led her to this moment. It was love that seduced her, at age sixteen, into an ill-fated plot with the poet Alcaeus to depose the despot of the island of Lesbos. It was love that made her trade the unwanted marriage bed of an old, despised, and drunken husband for a seemingly endless series of lovers, both male and female. For Sappho, life has always been a banquet to be savored to the fullest, a strange and sensual odyssey that has carried her to the far corners of the ancient world. Devoted to the goddess Aphrodite and granted the gift of immortal song, she has followed her magnificent destiny from Delphi to Egypt, to the land of the Amazons, the realm of the centaurs, and into the stygian depths of Hades itself, often in the company of her companion and friend, the fabulist slave Aesop. Through every grand affair and every wild adventure, she has remained forever true to her heart, her passion, and herself, right up to this, the end of everything. Combining evocative and realistic detail with unabashedly outrageous invention, Erica Jong&rsquo;s Sappho&rsquo;s Leap is a flawless gem of historical fiction boldly imagined by one of America&rsquo;s most enthralling storytellers. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erica Jong including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Sappho's Leap

<div>Fearless, iconic poet, novelist, and feminist Erica Jong offers a fascinating in-depth appreciation of the controversial life and work of American literary giant Henry Miller Henry Miller (Tropic of Cancer) and Erica Jong (Fear of Flying) are true literary soul mates. Both authors have been, in equal measure, lauded for their creative genius and maligned for their frank treatment of human sexuality. So who better than Erica Jong to offer an expert appraisal and appreciation of Henry Miller, the man and his art? At once a critical study, a biography, a memoir of a remarkable friendship, and a celebration of the life and work of the author whom Erica Jong compares to Whitman, The Devil at Large explores the peaks and valleys of Miller&rsquo;s storied writing career. It examines his tumultuous relationships&mdash;including his doomed marriage to June Mansfield and his lifelong tenuous bond with his mother&mdash;and confirms his standing as a creative genius. Jong, a renowned feminist, courageously answers critics who accuse her subject of degrading women in his fiction, suggesting instead that he sought to demystify them by means of the &ldquo;violent verbal magic of his books.&rdquo; With grace, wit, warmth, and intelligence, Jong brings readers close to the man and his writing. There has never been a more incisive and insightful analysis of this exceptional American master. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erica Jong including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

The Devil at Large

<div>The New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Fear of Flying celebrates witches in a gorgeously illustrated brew of witchcraft lore, potions, secrets, and myth. With a mix of genuine fascination, passionate enthusiasm, and keen feminist insight, Erica Jong wades through a bog of myths, misinformation, historical hysteria, and contemporary Halloween costumes to offer a generous exploration and celebration of witches. From their origins as descendants of ancient goddesses to contemporary practitioners of the craft, the evolution of the concept of &ldquo;witch&rdquo; has been as changeable as the centuries themselves. From evil crone to sexual seductress, they are the embodiment of both light and dark, fertility and death, divinity and paganism, baleful curses and healing cures. They have been scapegoated as the object of men&rsquo;s worst fears and embraced as heroines of female empowerment. As muses, they have influenced popular culture from Shakespeare and Yeats to Anne Sexton and Ken Russell. With reverence and a hint of mischief, Jong reveals witches&rsquo; rites, rituals, and magical recipes, including authentic spells and incantations. &ldquo;A steaming cauldron of beautifully illustrated prose, poetry, love potions and flying lotions&rdquo; (Glamour) from the renowned author of Fanny, Witches is &ldquo;nothing less than a complete transformation of our concept of witches . . . accomplishe[d] with panache in this sumptuously and provocatively illustrated book&quot; (Publishers Weekly). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erica Jong, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Witches

<div>The author of Fear of Flying &ldquo;touches on her mother&rsquo;s death, astrophysics and her own return to poetry, which &lsquo;came / unbidden / as it / always / does&rsquo;&rdquo; (The New York Times). Life challenges us to celebrate even when our very existence is threatened. Never have we needed poetry more. Poetry was #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling novelist Erica Jong&rsquo;s first love, and she never left it. In a dark time, she celebrates life&mdash;the title of this collection, The World Began with Yes, comes from the celebrated Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, who was deeply in love with life despite many tragedies. Jong believes that the poet sees the world in a grain of sand and eternity in a wild flower&mdash;as Blake wrote. Her work has always stressed the importance of the lives of women, women&rsquo;s creativity, and self-confidence, and this collection is an inspiration to readers, as well as the next generation of poets. &ldquo;Say &lsquo;yes,&rsquo; to this collection and let the world begin.&rdquo; &mdash;Kim Dower, author of Sunbathing on Tyrone Power&rsquo;s Grave</div>

Erica Jong

Books By Erica Jong (8 Books)

Fear of Flying

Becoming Light

Shylock's Daughter

Fanny

Sappho's Leap

The Devil at Large

Witches

The World Began with Yes

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