Fifty Shades of Grey, Volume 1

E. L. James

Vintage Books, 2012 - Fiction - 514 pages

"And in this quiet moment as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. And in spite of all he's said, and what he hasn't said, I don't think I have ever been so happy."

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.

• An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
• More than 165 Million Copies Sold Worldwide
• One of 100 Great Reads in the Great American Read
• 133 Weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List

This book is intended for mature audiences.

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About the author

E L James is an incurable romantic and a self-confessed fangirl. After twenty-five years of working in television, she decided to pursue a childhood dream and write stories that readers could take to their hearts. The result was the controversial and sensuous romance Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. In 2015, she published the #1 bestseller Grey, the story of Fifty Shades of Grey from the perspective of Christian Grey, and in 2017, the chart-topping Darker, the second part of the Fifty Shades story from Christian's point of view. Her books have been published in fifty languages and have sold more than 150 million copies worldwide.

E L James has been recognized as one of Time magazine's Most Influential People in the World" and Publishers Weekly's Person of the Year." Fifty Shades of Greystayed on The New York Times Best Seller List for 133 consecutive weeks. Fifty Shades Freed won the Goodreads Choice Award (2012), and Fifty Shades of Greywas selected as one of the 100 Great Reads, as voted by readers, in PBS's The Great American Read (2018). Darker has been long-listed for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award.

She coproduced for Universal Studios the Fifty Shades movies, which made more than a billion dollars at the box office. The third installment, Fifty Shades Freed, won the People's Choice Award for Drama in 2018.

E L James is blessed with two wonderful sons and lives with her husband, the novelist and screenwriter Niall Leonard, and their West Highland terriers in the leafy suburbs of West London.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Fifty Shades of Grey, Volume 1; Volume 1 of Fifty Shades Of Grey; Fifty Shades Trilogy; Fifty Shades of Grey, E. L. James; Fifty shades bk. 1; Book 1 of Fifty shades trilogy, E. L. James; Vintage Books
• Author: E. L. James
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Vintage Books, 2012
• ISBN: 0345803485, 9780345803481
• Length: 514 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary; Fiction / Romance / Erotic; Fiction / Women