"A Mo Here is a classic novel of turn-of-the-century erotica. Its author, Guillaume Apollinaire, is best known as a major French poet. What is less well known is that was also, for many years, the curator of Enfer–or forbidden works division–of the Bibliothèque Nationale, where he came in contact with the great erotic works, classic and modern, which may have inspired him to prove that he could turn his hand at the art as well as any other writer. Amorous Exploits of a Young Rakehell is the first-person account of a precocious young Frenchman¹s amorous exploits during a summer at his family¹s château, and includes affairs not only with his maiden aunt, but also his sister. "He [Apollinaire] took his opportunity wherever he found it Š His insatiable curiosity about everything and everybody made him try every path Š His knowledge of licentious authors of the eighteenth century, of whom he was very fond, enriched his vocabulary and influenced his style."- Marcel Adema, Apollinaire