{"product_id":"the-scorpion-anna-e-weirauch-9781972807064","title":"The Scorpion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Classic of LGBTQ+ Literature - Now in a New Unabridged English Translation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Anna Elisabet Weirauch published the first volume of \u003cem\u003eDer Skorpion\u003c\/em\u003e in Berlin in 1919 - nine years before Radclyffe Hall's \u003cem\u003eThe Well of Loneliness\u003c\/em\u003e - it found an immediate and passionate readership. Censored in 1926 for fear it would corrupt youth and placed on the Nazi Index of Dangerous Literature, it survived anyway: passed hand to hand, translated, reprinted, abridged, and mutilated by pulp publishers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis edition features: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA new unabridged English translation from the original German\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBoth Book One (1919) and Book Two (1921) - the full arc Weirauch intended as a single story\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA comprehensive introduction by the editor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScholarly analyses of both books\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter-by-chapter historical notes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComprehensive bibliography of Anna Elisabet Weirauch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Story\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMette Rudloff grows up motherless in Berlin, raised by a well-meaning but remote father and an overbearing aunt. As a young woman, she drifts through a stifling social world of needlework circles and dull French reading circles until the day a door opens and Olga Radó walks into her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is one of the great love stories in early twentieth-century literature. Olga is brilliant, cultured, commanding, elusive - a woman who carries a golden cigarette case engraved with a scorpion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe becomes Mette's teacher, her intellectual awakening, and eventually her great love. But their relationship exists in a society that has no tolerance for it, and Mette's family - led by the implacable Aunt Emilie - mobilizes every weapon at its disposal: private detectives, psychiatrists, forced separation, and the relentless pressure of respectability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Scorpion\u003c\/em\u003e is not a tragedy, nor is it a story of triumphant liberation. It is something rarer and more honest: the story of a woman learning to live with the full weight of who she is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect for: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReaders of classic, vintage, and historical literary fiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFans of lesbian and sapphic fiction (romance)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReaders of forbidden love stories and recovered literary histories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone interested in Weimar Berlin and early twentieth-century European social history\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone who loved \u003cem\u003eThe Price of Salt\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFingersmith\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Well of Loneliness\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTipping the Velvet\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReaders of Sarah Waters, Radclyffe Hall, Jeanette Winterson, and Emma Donoghue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBook clubs exploring underrepresented voices in literary history\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCollectors of annotated and scholarly editions of rare texts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart of Ovid Publishing Group's LGBTQ+ Library\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOvid Publishing Group's LGBTQ+ Library brings forgotten and overlooked works of queer literature back into print through new English translations and carefully annotated editions. Specializing in public domain works from the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries, the collection recovers voices that were censored, prosecuted, published anonymously, or simply lost to time - from the only surviving copy of an 1895 lesbian novel found in the Berlin State Library to the landmark works of Weimar Berlin's queer underground. Each edition pairs faithful new translations with scholarly introductions that place these works in their historical and cultural context, ensuring that the pioneers of LGBTQ+ literature finally reach the modern readers they were written for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anna E. 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