Fifty Shades of Grey copies worldwide by June 2015. It has been translated into 52 languages, and set a record in the United Kingdom as the fastest-selling paperback of all time. Critical reception of the book, however, has tended towards the negative, with the quality of its prose generally seen as poor. Universal Pictures and Focus Features produced a film adaptation, which was released on 13 February 2015 and also received generally unfavourable reviews. The second and third volumes of the trilogy, "Fifty Shades Darker" and "Fifty Shades Freed", were published in 2012. "", a version of "Fifty Shades of Grey" being told from
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