A Virgin Heart (de Gourmont, 1921)

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A Virgin Heart (1921)
by Remy de Gourmont, translated by Aldous Leonard Huxley

Title Page, Preface and Table of Contents

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First published in French as A coeur virginal in 1907.

Remy de Gourmont2833908A Virgin Heart — Title Page, Preface and Table of Contents1921Aldous Leonard Huxley

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A VIRGIN HEART

A NOVEL

BY

REMY DE GOURMONT

AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION

BY

ALDOUS HUXLEY

NICHOLAS L. BROWN
NEW YORKMCMXXI

PREFACE

The author had thought of qualifying this book: A Novel Without Hypocrisy; but he reﬂected that these words might appear unseemly, since hypocrisy is becoming more and more fashionable.

He next thought of: A Physiological Novel; but that was still worse in this age of great converts, when grace from on high so opportunely purifies the petty human passions.

These two sub-titles being barred, nothing was left; he has therefore put nothing.

A novel is a novel. And it would be no more than that if the author had not attempted, by an analysis that knows no scruples, to reveal in these pages what may be called the seamy side of a 'virgin heart,' to show that innocence has its instincts, its needs, its physiological dues.

A young girl is not merely a young heart, but a young human body, all complete.

Such is the subject of this novel, which must, in spite of everything, be called 'physiological.'

R.G.

Contents

Chapters (not listed in original)

CONTENTS

I		pag.9
II		27
III		38
IV		55
V		61
VI		68
VII		82
VIII		93
IX		104
X		121
XI		134
XII		152
XIII		166
XIV		175
XV		185
XVI		195
XVII		210
XVIII		224

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