Fifty Shades of Grey (James)

Fifty Shades of Grey (Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy)
E L James, 2011
Knopf Doubleday
528 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780345803481


Summary
When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating.

The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms.

Shocked yet thrilled by Grey’s singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success—his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family—Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark desires.

Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever. (From the publisher.)

See our Reading Guides for the next two books in the Fifty Shades Trilogy: Fifty Shades Darker, the second book; and Fifty Shades Freed, the third.

See the 2015 film version with Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan.
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