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"Every wild-apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to man ", Henry David Thoreau (1862) In the contemplative "Wild Apples", Thoreau illustrates the essence of people as it parallels with wild apples. SHALLA Magazine's Special Edition of "Wild Apples" by Henry David Thoreau features artistic, vintage art and photography from the 1800s and works by Gary Beck, Andrew Hogan, John Kaniecki, etc Edited by Shalla Art

Venus in Furs traces the passionate, masochistic desires of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman dangerously lusting to be the sex slave of the voluptuous, cruel Wanda von Dunajew. Published in 1870, it revolutionized pop culture, introducing the term "masochism" to the world for the first time.