Dominique Aury's world-famous and world-class gift to her lover was first published by Olympia, won a prize, and sent the police after publisher Maurice Girodias. This version derives from the second, improved translation, dubbed "The Wisdom of the Lash" in an effort to fool the cops. Not imported into the U.S. until the early '60s, the fate of O was debated extensively in courts, until Olympia was finally declared sole owner of all English rights, a fact pirates have had some trouble dealing wi... more info>>
Words: 59201 - Reading Time: 169-236 min. Category: Erotica
The first volume of de Sade's notorious classic. This series, starring fair Justine's younger sister, is a unique mixture of philosophy, sex, anti-Catholicism, bondage, rape, murder, sex and fecal dining. Volume 1 chronicles Juliette's final days of convent-living, and her introduction to society.
This series, starring fair Justine's younger sister, is a unique mixture of philosophy, sex, anti-Catholicism, bondage, rape, murder, sex and fecal dining. Volume 3 introduces Juliette to The Sodality of the Friends of Crime, and showcases her initiation with that group.
Legendary title, first printed in a limited edition of some 150 copies. During a lull in a wild night of lust, one woman lets her companions know some of her many varied experiences, with men, women, boys... and livestock. Later republished by Grove in an edited, yet impossible to find version, we've done what we could cleaning up the original (for spelling).
Words: 42764 - Reading Time: 122-171 min. Category: Erotica
Marcus Van Heller's (John Stevenson), account of a boy and a girl, innocent and in Eve's case somewhat frigid, who flee the countryside for London, him to be a painter, her an actress. Along the way, she trades her innocence for a career, with sometimes disastrous results, he gets caught up in the ecstastic arts scene, the two part, until finally reuniting in an earth-shattering conclusion.
Words: 56815 - Reading Time: 162-227 min. Category: Erotica
Considered the best work by author Harriet Daimler (Iris Owens), Darling is an oddly titled but very explicit rape fantasy. How explicit: after accepting Owens, and offering her the $2 a day he gave to all his writers, Girodias took the young woman aside, and asked her to, please, tone down the work a bit as it was not necessary for every page to be sexual. Fortunately, enough gets through...
Words: 40979 - Reading Time: 117-163 min. Category: Erotica
Harriet Daimler's (Iris Owens) second work for Olympia is the account of Adrian, a '50s heiress, neurotic and bed-ridden control fiend, who abuses her nurse Rose, lusts after her father, and despite her invalid state feels herself on top of things. From across the pond arrives Andre, a disinherited cousin, who has his own ideas and strategies ... The title and plot for this work were suggested by John Coleman, author of The Enormous Bed.
Words: 43848 - Reading Time: 125-175 min. Category: Erotica
The second volume of de Sade's notorious classic. This series, starring fair Justine's younger sister, is a unique mixture of philosophy, sex, anti-Catholicism, bondage, rape, murder, sex and fecal dining. Volume 2 covers Juliette's introduction to Monsieur de Saint-Fond, a series of wild-feasts, the nature of God, the weaknesses of those who fear an afterlife, and appropriate chastisings for same.
The fourth volume of de Sade's notorious classic. This series, starring fair Justine's younger sister, is a unique mixture of philosophy, sex, anti-Catholicism, bondage, rape, murder, sex and fecal dining. Volume 4 puts Juliette in Italy, where she takes on the Papacy. Also includes bad French poetry that the translator elects to spare us from.
The fifth volume of de Sade's notorious classic. This series, starring fair Justine's younger sister, is a unique mixture of philosophy, sex, anti-Catholicism, bondage, rape, murder, sex and fecal dining. Volume 5 discusses the nature of crime, government and liberty (one almost thinks of the classic Umberto Eco "rejected manuscripts" essay in L'Espresso, where an editor refuses de Sade for lack of sex.) You've come this far...
De Sade's erotic classic, this is the tale of sister Justine, orphaned, cast out, constantly trying to be good and do good, and in no way getting rewarded for her virtue. A work that was first banned by no less than Napoleon himself.
Author van Heller is a legend among writers of erotic fiction, so good that his name and craft were often imitated, but never duplicated. The Devil's Advocate takes a nod from Candy, presenting the innocent Clara Reeves, and tracking her gradual seduction by attorney Sam Garnett, a man whose callous libertinage contrasts nicely with her winsome naivete. Clara hires Garnett to find out what happened to her sister, a girl who vanished leaving behind nothing save dirty pictures. Of course, she does... more info>>
Words: 86490 - Reading Time: 247-345 min. Category: Erotica
Author van Heller is a legend among writers of erotic fiction, so good that his name and craft were often imitated, but never duplicated. For Olympia, our Marcus takes on the notorious family Borgia, a line which included the debauched Cesare, his sister Lucrezia, and their father the Pope. In this first volume, we experience the young Lucrezia's sexual awakening, her complicity with her father's schemes to increase the family's power, and the love that drove her brother, Cesare, to murder.
Words: 46793 - Reading Time: 133-187 min. Category: Erotica
Author van Heller is a legend among writers of erotic fiction, so good that his name and craft were often imitated, but never duplicated. For Olympia, our Marcus takes on the notorious family Borgia, a line which included the debauched Cesare, his sister Lucrezia, and their father the Pope. In this second volume, we turn our focus away from the family and straight to the young Cesare. A gifted politician, able general, and all-out sociopath, the man suffers with the passing of his father, loses ... more info>>
Words: 45849 - Reading Time: 130-183 min. Category: Erotica
Henry Miller's best-known and most famous work (on anybody's top 100 list, and among this year's top 50 sellers), was first published by Girodias's father in 1934. The book itself was accepted by Jack Kahane in '31, but the economy and Kahane's legal struggles led him to continually delay launching the title into print, a situation that was remedied only by Anais Nin's agreeing to pay printer's costs several years later. (A few accounts have Nin receiving the money from her rich broker husband, ... more info>> (Published: 1934)
"Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos." Miller's sequel to Tropic of Cancer gives us more of his life, and in particular his days at the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company (Western Union.) It was only with publication of this work that Miller found himself able to leave Paris. (Published: 1938)
With the arguable exception of Brad Pitt's casting as Achilles, this eBook is the most perverse thing to happen to Homer in millenia. Written by Michael Gall (who also did The Sexual Life of Robinson Crusoe), A Beside Odyssey presents a revised Ulysses (of "The Thousand Shots"), and his many romps with nymphs, goddesses, thousand-holed sirens, and of course Circe. The work is also notable for an hysterical preface by Girodias himself, and some great alliterative titles, like The Nymphomaniacal N... more info>>
Words: 38199 - Reading Time: 109-152 min. Category: Erotica
A novel of voyeurism. One man chooses to detach himself from the fray, yet is still destroyed by a woman. Fascinating read first published 1957 as Vol. 41 of the Traveller's Companion Series.
Words: 62092 - Reading Time: 177-248 min. Category: Erotica
George Bataille's notorious The Story of the Eye was first published (anoynmously) in 1928. Olympia picked up this work, and brought out their translation, curiously choosing to rename it A Tale of Satisfied Desire. This book is the shocking account of erotica's darkest side, with excesses and extremes, obession and the most forbidden of passions.
Words: 19123 - Reading Time: 54-76 min. Category: Erotica
Guillaume Apollinaire's account of a 15-year-old budding libertine's summer on the farm, where he congresses with maids, servants, passersby, an aunt and finally a sister, while outside the manor peasants go for creatures of the four-legged variety, is a classic unparalleled in its content, brevity and wit. Apollinaire ranks among the most renowned French poets, dying of the Spanish flu after suffering grave injury in WWI. He's said to have been the curator of forbidden works at the Bibliothèque... more info>>
Words: 20711 - Reading Time: 59-82 min. Category: Erotica
Surprising western adventure about a Irish immigrant, fresh from the wars but not out of trouble, seeking to make a go of things out west. He also makes a go with a Mexican cutie, and, for most of the story, finds himself tangled up with innocent twins ... well, maybe not so innocent. Of course, it's near impossible for him to choose between them. But luckily, that situation resolves itself nicely.
Words: 59849 - Reading Time: 170-239 min. Category: Erotica
Completing, in a sense, the trilogy begun with Tropic of Cancer, Miller again presents us with anecdotes of life in Brooklyn. His work at the Tailor is much-discussed, among other humerous anecdotes. There are ten stories in this volume, loosely arranged. An odd (-er-than-usual for Mr. Miller) publishing history accompanies this work. Miller actually wrote it while simultaneously revising Tropic of Cancer, working on Tropic of Capricorn and completing a study of D.H. Lawrence. Hectic in its pace... more info>>
In 1951, photojournalist Jock Carroll wandered the set of Niagara, the film that made Marilyn Monroe a star. The pictures he took then are themselves erotic classics, catching Marilyn in many daring poses, but Mr. Carroll wasn't done. Later, he wrote Bottom's Up, about a naive photojournalist who meets a stunning actress in Canada ... and some other girls when he heads to New York in the company of a more experienced journo, the latter fellow educating our hero on the uses of an expense account,... more info>>
Words: 77998 - Reading Time: 222-311 min. Category: Erotica/Humor
Predating the phenomenon of the Japanese biz novel by decades, Business as Usual offers us the account of how one man got ahead. There are also instructions for handling maids and an (all-female) clerical staff. Not clear what product our hero, Alain, is selling, but he does make his mark.
Words: 49110 - Reading Time: 140-196 min. Category: Erotica
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