The Classmate, Vanessa Duries (for 50 Shades fans) torrent

This is an unauthorized translation of the surviving manuscript of L’etudiante by Vanessa Duriès, published by Èditions blanche in 2007. as far as I know, this is the first time the book has been translated. The translation is produced for no commercial gain.

The Maxim Jakubowski article comes from the afterword to the American edition of The Ties that Bind.

The photographs are scans from a copy of the Èditions blanche edition.
The French edition contains a letter from Vanessa duriès to Franck Spengler. This has not been translated. similarly, Florence Dugas appended a proposed ending to the fifth chapter. This has not been translated either.

More information about Vanessa Duriès can be found on Wikipedia. Clues to the identity of the Parisian “famous dominatrix” mentioned by Vanessa in Chapter 4 may be found in a profile of Catherine Robbe-Grillet by Toni Bentley (author of The Surrender) published in Vanity Fair on February 1, 2014.

The Ties that Bind remains in print in both the original French and english almost twenty years after Vanessa’s death.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Duri%C3%A8s
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Duri%C3%A8s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ties_That_Bind_%28novel%29