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Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
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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)
Words: 107000 - Reading Time: 305-428 min.
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President Kissinger
by Monroe Rosenthal, Donald Munson
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President Kissinger, from the short-lived Freeway Press, is a futuristic tale of what-might-be, as the great Henry leads us to one-world government through communism. Included in the mix are many of Kissinger's loves, revolutions in Africa, the Middle East, war with China, peace with the USSR, and finally all brought together under the blanket of the UN. Perhaps for its fictionalized accounts of "Kissinger's" many loves, shortly after this novel's publication Maurice found himself in the middle ... more info>>
Words: 76438 - Reading Time: 218-305 min.
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Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded, v1
by Marquis de Sade
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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.
Words: 84559 - Reading Time: 241-338 min.
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House of Incest
by Anais Nin
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Nin's first novel, a dream-like reverie, stands among her most-challenging.
Words: 8731 - Reading Time: 24-34 min.
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The 120 Days of Sodom
by Marquis de Sade
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Publication of the Marquis de Sade's infamous works were subject to a lengthy court dispute in France, with Olympia losing in the end (Girodias eventually relocated to NY as America and the UK began liberalizing just as legendary Gallic tolerance shifted in another direction). The plot is simple: a group of amoral libertines retire to a sealed chateau with an entourage of innocent victims, all of whom are murdered in ways both sexual and Byzantine. De Sade's taste for death and torture may have ... more info>>
Words: 175000 - Reading Time: 500-700 min.
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My Mother Taught Me
by Tor Kung
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One of six novels to be published by the short-lived Danish Olympia Press (Girodias' legal troubles in the early '60s were horrendous, so he tried his hand in Copenhagen briefly before emigrating to America). My Mother Taught Me is a special Traveller's Companion title, and ranks as the most-requested book we've ever received. This is the tale of Lars, a Swedish boy, raised in an all-male orphanage without ever seeing even pictures of women, adopted into a new household with enthusiastic sibling... more info>> (Published: 1964)
Words: 66200 - Reading Time: 189-264 min.
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The Wisdom of the Lash [The Story of O]
by Dominique Aury
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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.
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Forever Ecstasy
by Tor Kung
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Published in 1968, and possibly earlier, this book had the honor of being our most-requested title (after the addition of My Mother Taught Me, the other legitimate Tor Kung, which earlier held the rank). An amazing story about schoolboys, led by Paul and the devious but cowardly Rick, who at the end of the schoolyear find themselves holding a young geometry teacher... right where they want her. Also a subplot involving Paul and his new home.
Words: 69566 - Reading Time: 198-278 min.
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Sexus [The Rosy Crucifixion Book I]
by Henry Miller
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First volume in the Rosy Crucifixion series, originally published not by the Olympia Press, but rather Editions du Chene, Girodias' prior imprint (he was forced out after financial difficulties). Sexus is among Miller's most diverting works, at times erudite, dull, erotic and tame, chronicling the author's first wife, his final days in New York, his crushing failures, and his many women.
Words: 197480 - Reading Time: 564-789 min.
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Plexus [The Rosy Crucifixion Book II]
by Henry Miller
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Second volume in the Rosy Crucifixion series. More about Henry and June, also chronicling the author's travels to the deep South, and his work as an encyclopedia salesmen (after he'd left personnel).
Words: 220465 - Reading Time: 629-881 min.
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Nexus [The Rosy Crucifixion Book III]
by Henry Miller
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A stunning work that sings with energy and expectation, Nexus is the last volume of the Rosy Crucifixion series, and the last major effort from this renowned author. Speaking of his life with June, and her friend who had gone on before, the work paints this bizarre trio. Still later, the time comes when Henry, finally, is free of NY, free of America, and free to truly begin writing as he'd been wanting to for so long. The only major novel in American letters to begin "Woof Woof," as it must.
Words: 124670 - Reading Time: 356-498 min.
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Our Lady of the Flowers
by Jean Genet
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Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady of the Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictional work. The first draft was written while Genet was incarcerated in a French prison; when the manuscript was discovered and destroyed by officials, Genet, still a prisoner, immediately set about writing it again. It isn't difficult to understand how and why Genet was able to reproduce the novel under such circumstances, because Our Lady of the Flowers is nothing less than a mythic recreation of G... more info>>
Words: 85905 - Reading Time: 245-343 min.
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Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded, v2
by Marquis de Sade
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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.
Words: 78754 - Reading Time: 225-315 min.
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Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded, v3
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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.
Words: 62338 - Reading Time: 178-249 min.
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Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded, v5
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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...
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Desire and Helen
by Alexander Trocchi
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Trocchi's first novel, and considered by many his most succesful bit of erotica (though there were so many good ones by this author), is the tale of Helen, a girl born to a rural village in Northwest Australia (about as isolated a place as it gets), and a woman of the sea, like that other Helen (both are Greek). Determined to flout convention and chronicle her life--all of life--Helen brings us along as she loses her innocence, is betrayed, freed, imprisoned again, cheated, cheats others, and on... more info>>
Words: 49441 - Reading Time: 141-197 min.
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The Carnal Days of Helen Seferis
by Alexander Trocchi
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The long-awaited sequel to Helen and Desire, this work picks up where the first volume left off, presenting us with private investigator Anthony Harvest, a detective with a penchant for the sexual life, and a gift for handling tough situations. Henry meets up with Helen's former companion, and in time is sent into North Africa searching for the lost woman, whose diaries so inflamed the imaginations of us all.
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The School for Sin
by Alexander Trocchi
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Frances Lengel's (Alexander Trocchi's) School for Sin gives a stirring, detailed account of what Peggy and Doreen learned in the big city after they left their respective potato farms. Another of Trocchi's books, this one is intriguing if only for the way Doreen came to join her friend in Dublin. They school's curriculumn itself is of course what one should expect, however as with all things Trocchi, there's that manic quality that separates the work from more standard fare.
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The Woman Thing
by Harriet Daimler
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One of author Daimler's more unusual works, involving debates about philosophy, madness, religion, and the screaming tender demon inside. Martha and Macdonald sit in Paris, debate and chat, and need, and desire, and reject...
Words: 38646 - Reading Time: 110-154 min.
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Roman Orgy
by Marcus Van Heller
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Author van Heller is a legend among writers of erotic fiction, so good that his name and craft were often imitated, but never duplicated. Considered by many to be his finest work, Roman Orgy is a retelling of Spartacus. In this case, our hero is a servant, willful but submissive, until one day when Clodia, his master's wife, lures him into the baths, teases him, makes love to him... and then cries rape after the pair are found out. Forced to become a gladiator, Spartacus survives the coliseum, r... more info>>
Words: 45335 - Reading Time: 129-181 min.
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Terror
by Marcus Van Heller
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The oft-imitated but never duplicated Marcus Van Heller (John Stevenson), is back with this fast-paced account of rebellion, Algeria, the National Liberation Front and quite a bit of sex, some of it forced, some of it paid for, some given sweetly.
Words: 46679 - Reading Time: 133-186 min.
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The Devil's Advocate
by Marcus Van Heller
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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.
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The House of Borgia, v1
by Marcus Van Heller
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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.
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The House of Borgia, v2
by Marcus Van Heller
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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.
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The Loins of Amon
by Marcus Van Heller
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Marcus van Heller's Roman Orgy skillfully captured the savage, sprawling epic of the rebellion of the slaves led by Spartacus, and the tragic failure of their rise against the Roman Empire. Now, in The Loins of Amon, the same scholarly acumen is again evident as van Heller brings to life ancient Egypt, with the bizarre religious rites of the Pharaohs, and the story of one man's struggle against cruelty! Based on years of historical and archaeological research by this well-known novelist, who is,... more info>>
Words: 49836 - Reading Time: 142-199 min.
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