The Seven Minutes
by Irving Wallace
On This Page
Description
Dramatizes the hidden motivations and activities of censors and anti-censors, the problems of permissiveness and restraint, and the moral dilemmas facing all of us today.Tags
Recommendations
Member Reviews
I'm disappointed that I didn't read this book until today. This book was first published in 1969 (I wasn't even born)and the subject matters holds good even today. The plot revolves around a fictional, pornographic novel called Seven Minutes. The book is touted as the most pornographic book ever written. It does raise a few hackles among the conservatives. To the liberals,the book is all about a peep into sexuality in general and female sexuality in particular. The conservatives want the book to be banned and censorship law to be invoked.
The courtroom episodes are brilliant and arguments cogent. The twist in the last 20 pages is mind blowing.
The courtroom episodes are brilliant and arguments cogent. The twist in the last 20 pages is mind blowing.
En la quietud de la sala del tribunal, un librero es acusado de vender un libro. ¿Se trata de la obra de un genio sensible o un volumen execrable de pornografía? ¿Podría haber llevado a un respetable universitario a cometer una brutal violación? ¿Y quién es el autor de la novela en el vórtice de una tormenta de sensación y controversia?
Nov 30, 2022Spanish
Surge la historia maravillosa de 2 personajes que nos harán que no podamos parar hasta terminar el libro.Un libro lleno de sorpresas y un misterio final aclarará muchas cosas, y nos ayudará a comprender cómo muchos autores fueron incomprendidos en su época por culpa de la política y de la mentalidad de la gente.
Dec 25, 2010Spanish
Com dedicatória dos meus pais
May 12, 2016Portuguese (Portugal)
Ratings
Members
- Recently Added By
Lists
Publisher's Weekly Bestsellers - Part II - 1940 - 1979
355 works; 5 members
Author Information
100+ Works 8,988 Members
Irving Wallace was born March 19, 1916 in Chicago, Illinois. He began writing for various magazines at age 15 and worked as a screenwriter for a number of Hollywood studios---Columbia, Fox, Warner Brothers, Universal, and MGM from 1950 to 1959, then he turned solely to writing books. His first major bestseller was The Chapman Report in 1960, a show more fictional account of a sexual research team's investigations of a wealthy Los Angeles suburb. Among other fictional works by Wallace are The Prize and The Word. His meticulously researched fiction often has the flavor of spicy journalism. A great deal of research goes into his novels, which cover a wide variety of subjects, from the presentation of the Nobel Prize to political scenarios. With their recurring dramatic confrontations, his novels lend themselves well to screenplay adaptation, and most of them have been filmed, including The Chapman Report and The Prize. Wallace has also compiled several nonfiction works with his family, including The People's Almanac and The Book of Lists, both of which have spawned sequels. Irving Wallace died June 29, 1990 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 74 from pancreatic cancer. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Some Editions
Awards and Honors
Distinctions
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title*
- Die sieben Minuten
- Original title
- The Seven Minutes
- Original publication date
- 1969-10
- People/Characters
- J. J. Jadway
- Important places
- Oakland, California, USA
- Related movies
- The Seven Minutes (1971 | IMDb)
- Epigraph*
- Mrs. Digby erzählte mir, daß damals, als sie noch
mit ihrer Schwester Mrs. Brooke in London lebte,
Dr. Johnson sie von Zeit zu Zeit mit seinem
Besuch beehrte. Kurz nach der Veröffentlichung
seines unsterblichen... (show all) Tagebuches sprach er eines
Tages bei ihnen vor. Die beiden Damen über-
schütteten ihn mit Komplimenten. Reiches Lob
spendeten sie ihm vor allem dafür, daß in diesem
Buch keine schlüpfrigen Ausdrücke vorkamen.
»Aha, meine Lieben, dann haben Sie also danach
gesucht«, sagte der Moralist.
H.D. Best, Personal and Literary
Memorials (London, 1829) - First words
- By eleven o'clock in the morning the sun had come out, and now the women of Oakwood, most of them housewives in summer attire and most of them at the wheels in their own cars, were converging on the business district to do th... (show all)eir shopping.
- Quotations*
- Es ergaben sich zwar verschiedenartige Reaktionen, doch die Mehrzahl jener Frauen, die einen Orgasmus erlebten – sei es manuell, oral oder durch Geschlechtsverkehr – erreichten die Klimax nach sieben Minuten.
Collin... (show all)gwood, Beobachtung von 100 Frauen im Alter zwischen 18 und 45 Jahren. (London, 1931) - Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)»Maggie«, sagte er, »damit hast du deinen Anwalt.«
- Original language*
- Englisch
*Some information comes from Common Knowledge in other languages. Click "Edit" for more information.
Classifications
Statistics
- Members
- 411
- Popularity
- 75,119
- Reviews
- 4
- Rating
- (3.55)
- Languages
- 7 — Dutch, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 27
- ASINs
- 8
