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Emmanuelle by Emmanuelle Arsan
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics
First published in 1959, 'Emmanuelle' inspired the most successful x-rated film of all time, spawning an industry in imitations and worldwide notoriety. Can sharing only add to your pleasure? Emmanuelle is curious. Her husband Jean married her for her 'erotic genius', not to possess her. The only soluti ...Show more
Fanny Hill by John Cleland
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics
'Fanny Hill' scandalised thousands of Victorians with its vivid descriptions of sexual pleasure, and landed its author in court a year after publication on charges of 'corrupting the King's subjects'. This only heightened its allure -- and today it is still hugely appreciated as a work of true erotic an ...Show more
Justine by Marquis de Sade
Category: Classics | Series: Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics
'Justine' was the Marquis de Sade's first novella, written in 1787, whilst imprisoned for two weeks in the Bastille. Although published anonymously, de Sade was eventually indicted for blasphemy and obscenity (without trial) for the authorship of 'Justine' at the behest of Napoleon Bonaparte. Who suffer ...Show more
My Secret Life by WALTER
Category: Erotica | Series: Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics
'My Secret Life' is a dark work of Victorian erotica, and an explicit memoir of unspoken desires in the English class system -- encapsulating the joy of hidden sins in an age of moral fervour. Would you undress with the curtains open? A champagne-drinking Victorian traveller, Walter is lascivious, obnox ...Show more
The Autobiography of a Flea by Stanislas de Rhodes
Category: Erotic Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics
'The Autobiography of a Flea' was initally published in 1887, and inspired a film directed by one of the first female pornographic directors from the 1970s. Starring the inimitable John C Holmes, it is recognised as a classic example of the x-rated genre. Can men of the cloth ever escape temptation? A y ...Show more
The Pearl by Harper Collins (UK)
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics
'Lady Pokingham' and 'La Rose d'Amour' are taken from 'The Pearl' (A Magazine of Facetiae and Voluptuous Reading), which was first published between 1879 and 1880 and revelled unashamedly in its reputation for salubrious gossip from the upper echelons of society. Are there really two sides to every sto ...Show more
The Way of a Man with a Maid by Anonymous
Category: Erotica | Series: Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics
'The Way of a Man with a Maid' is a foray into pleasure, pain, lesbianism and etiquette -- told from the viewpoint of a quintessential Edwardian gent. Having first appeared in Parisian journals around the turn of the century, it is widely acknowledged to be a defining example of the erotic genre, and re ...Show more
Venus in Furs by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics
First published in 1870, the author of 'Venus in Furs' defined -- and unwittingly gave his own name to -- that sexual proclivity we know as masochism in this understated, charged erotic classic. What woman could resist a trembling man handing her the whip? Severin is a young Galician nobleman with a s ...Show more
Venus in India by Charles Devereaux
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Forbidden Classics
'Venus in India' is set in colonial Hindustan, and reveals the story of Captain Devereux, a man who finds it hard to keep his hands off other soldiers' wives. Exploring the fine art of menage a trois, each sinuous line provides proof that tropical heat and erotic lust are perfect bedfellows. To cheat? ...Show more
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