E. L James

Originally published: Waxahachie, Tex. : Writer's Coffee Shop Publishing House, 2011. When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind -- until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time.

London, 2019. Life has been easy for Maxim Trevelyan. With his good looks, aristocratic connections, and money, he's never had to work and he's rarely slept alone. But all that changes when tragedy strikes and Maxim inherits his family's noble title, wealth, and estates, and all the responsibility that entails. It's a role he's not prepared for and one that he struggles to face. But his biggest challenge is fighting his desire for an unexpected, enigmatic...

Christian Grey exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty -- until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of shapely limbs and tumbling brown hair. He tries to forget her, but instead is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot comprehend and cannot resist. Unlike any woman he has known before, shy, unworldly Ana seems to see right through him -- past the business prodigy and the penthouse...

Psikhologicheskiĭ roman s i︠a︡rkimi ėroticheskimi st︠s︡enami, nesomnenno, privlechet vnimanie iskushennykh chitateleĭ. Protivoborstvo chistoĭ i nevinnoĭ Anasteĭshi i predpochitai︠u︡shchego dominirovatʹ nad partnersheĭ Grei︠a︡ - nastoi︠a︡shchiĭ poedinok dvukh neprimirimykh mirov.... Chem on zakonchitsi︠a︡, esli v delo uzhe vmeshalasʹ li︠u︡bovʹ? I v kakie debri zapretnykh naslazhdeniĭ vedet Anasteĭshu putʹ verevki...

Anastasia has broken off her relationship with the troubled Christian to pursue a new career in a Seattle publishing house. While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront the anger and envy of the women who came before her.