A new category in publishing: the erotic 'forbidden' classic:
(no poetry)
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleaure by John Cleland
HarperPerennial, £6.99 Buy the book
Justine or The Misfortunes of Virtue by D.A.F. Marquis de Sade
HarperPerennial, £6.99 Buy the book
Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
HarperPerennial, £6.99 Buy the book
The Way of a Man with a Maid by Anonymous
HarperPerennial, £6.99
The Autobiography of a Flea by Stanislas de Rhodes
HarperPerennial, £6.99
Sadopaideia by Anonymous
HarperPerennial, £6.99
The Pearl: Two Erotic Tales by Anonymous
Harper Perennial, £6.99
My Secret Life by Walter
HarperPerennial, £6.99
Venus in India by Charles Devereaux
HarperPerennial, £6.99
Emmanuelle by Emmanuelle Arsan, translated by Lowell Bair
HarperPerennial, £6.99
Margaret Reynolds (times online) notes:
Of the ten books in Forbidden Classics only four - Cleland, de Sade, Sader-
Masoch and Arsan - have any literary merit.
Otherwise, if you really want something for Valentine's Day, I'd go for
Catullus, John Donne, Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Angela Carter's The
Bloody Chamber, Jeanette Winterson's The Passion or just about anything by Anaïs
Nin.
Not all of them have a lot of sex, but they are all truly sexy.
two poets! no mention of Burns or ... ?
Max
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