The Adventures of Father Silas by Beauregard de Farniente is a historical erotic novel, originally published anonymously in 1741 and translated by George Carrington in 1897. The story follows Father Silas, a young man naive to sexual matters, whose fascination with sex stems from witnessing a clandestine encounter between his nursemaid and Father Ambrose. Silas's desire to experience physical pleasure before entering the seminary and embracing celibacy drives the narrative. He finds himsel...

A classic of pre-revolutionary France, this novel examines the inside of a monastery, and offered not a little criticism of false pieties from the clerical regime. Olympia republished this work in the earlier days of the Traveller's Companion, it is believed but not assured that Austryn Wainhouse was the translator.

A classic of pre-revolutionary France, this novel examines the inside of a monastery, and offered not a little criticism of false pieties from the clerical regime. Olympia republished this work in the earlier days of the Traveller's Companion, it is believed but not assured that Austryn Wainhouse was the translator.

The Power of Mesmerism is a classic Victorian erotic novel that was originally published in 1891. It contains graphic sexual descriptions and themes. This risqué fictional foray into the nineteenth-century boudoir will finally put to rest the age-old presumption that the period was frumpy and repressed. A must-read for fans of steamy Victoriana.

Written anonymously in 1908 this four volume work must be one of the most uncompromising pieces to emerge from the Victorian erotic underground. If the writer was attempting to emulate De Sade, then the author has succeeded.'The Way of a Man with a Maid', as told by its main protagonist, Jack, recounts in graphic detail the 'training' and eventual sexual liberation of a number of young women who had previously spurned his advances. In the 'snuggery', Jack's well equipped room of de...

Normally Jason greatly enjoyed his families annual summer vacation in Newport. But with his father dying of cancer it's hard to enjoy anything these days.On the first day Jason's father tells him he has to promise to take care of his beautiful mother, Cynthia. Jason agrees, but then his father shocks him by saying he wants Jason to do more than care of her, he wants him to become her new lover.

Venus in India purports to be the autobiography of the randy Captain Devereux, who details his sensual adventures with the wives and daughters of his fellow soldiers in colonial India. Venus in India was first published in 1889 and will surprise and excite readers with its explicit descriptions of erotic dalliances and ménages à trois.

With the discovery of The Pearl, Pleasure Bound and The Loves of a Musical Student, the previously suppressed of underground Victorian and Edwardian literature has been exposed to our scrutiny. Yvonne is one such classic plucked from the abundant treasure-rove.The charming, enthusiastic heroine is taken in hand by her understanding and knowledgeable mentor and governess, Miss Mary. Together, the two ladies study the art of love and science of botany under the considerate tutelage o...

After years of absence, Jennie has finally returned to the house in which she was raised. To her surprise, what she finds is not the innocent childhood home that she left, but a place replete with possibilities for pleasure. Variously coy and domineering, Jennie indulges in her most elaborate fancies. What ensues is a series of sexual excesses that Jennie never imagined would happen in her own home.

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 colle...

I told her of the cause of her own symptoms. I gradually explained their effects, and without shocking her modesty, I contrived to hint at the remedy... I saw that she was so innocent as to be ignorant of my purpose, and burning with lust I determined to take advantage of her inexperience, and to be the first to teach her that intoxicating lesson of pleasure which, like all roses, is not plucked without a thorn.Being fully familiar with the female anatomy,...

Shortly before the French revolution of 1789 our Captain and narrator's Dragoon regiment kept garrison in the city of Le Mans. The officers, being taken in by some of the noblest and richest of houses of the city, soon began to play that age old game of cuckoldry, playing their patrons for fools as the rakes took the lewdest of liberties with their wives.Perhaps more scandalous was the fact that the women, ignored and thus unsatisfied by said husbands, desperate for the basest of p...