'This is a devastating book. It is matter-of-fact, makes no attempt to score political points, does not attempt to solicit sympathy for its protagonist and yet is among the most chilling indictments of war I have ever read. Everybody, in particular every woman ought to read it' ARUNDHATI ROY'One of the most important personal accounts ever written about the effects of war and defeat' ANTONY BEEVORBetween April 20th and June 22nd 1945 the an...

With 97 illustrations by Gustave Dore. According to Wikipedia: "The Douay-Rheims Bible, also known as the Rheims-Douai Bible or Douai Bible and abbreviated as D-R, is a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English. The New Testament was published in one volume with extensive commentary and notes in 1582. The Old Testament followed in 160910 in two volumes, also extensively annotated. The notes took up the bulk of the volumes and had a strong polemical and patristic characte...

The ancient Sumerian poem The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest written stories in existence, translated with an introduction by Andrew George in Penguin Classics.Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh's adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in que...

This file includes three anonymous Victorian erotic novels (Forbidden Fruit, Laura Middleton, and The Power of Mesmerism), plus Venus in Furs by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch.

In the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Lucy in the Sky, a harrowing account of anorexia and addiction.She was a good girl from a good family, with everything she could want or need. But below the surface, she felt like she could never be good enough. Like she could never live up to the expectations that surrounded her. Like she couldn’t do anything to make a change.But there was one thing she could control completely: how much she ate. The l...

A riveting first-person tale of addiction, in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Jay’s Journal.The author of this diary began journaling on her sixteenth birthday. She lived in an upper middle class neighborhood in Santa Monica with her mom, dad, and Berkeley-bound older brother. She was a good girl, living a good life...but one party changed everything. One party, where she took one taste—and liked it. Really liked it.Social drinking and dr...

When a wealthy English man about town attempts to make advances on the beautiful 20-year-old debutante Caroline Martin, she haughtily refuses him, thus assuring a remorseless series of punishments. As revenge, the wealthy man orders Caroline's abduction by members of a white slavery ring who cater to the perverted desires of the aristocracy. Sequestered in a remote Moroccan mountain prison, her new mistress and a sinister assistant begin Caroline's tutelage--an education in sexual submissi...

Vintage erotica, first published in 1898.

In only the last two years in America has a marketplace developed for the interchange of ideas, experiences, and fantasies in the sexual area. Consequently, much literary material, previously hidden and or suppressed, has come to light. In particular, Victorian fiction has been uncovered that shows those people were human after all (how, we might have wondered, did they ever manage to make babies in all that stuffiness!) A Ravished Maid, recently gotten from a private collection in London....

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If you associate the Victorian era with prim and proper prudery, you're going to have to adjust your opinion after spending some time with The Oyster. Excerpted from one of the most titillating publications of the period, this collection of top-notch Victorian erotica will delight discerning connoisseurs.

Class warfare at its finest. Easton Sherwood is offered, by his mistress (Miss Martin, the governess), assistance in seducing any and all women in the house. Easton's wife makes a similar offer, but only if he agrees to get rid of that awful Miss Martin. With so many luscious young targets around, what's a poor lord of the manner to do? And how will Miss Martin react if left to her own devices but still in the neighborhood? Read and find out.