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Offering the everyday tasks of literary editors as inspired sources of postwar literary historyMichel Foucault famously theorized “the author function” in his 1969 essay “What Is an Author?” proposing that the existence of the author limits textual meaning. Abram Foley shows a similar critique at work in the labor of several postwar editors who sought to question and undo the corporate “editorial/industrial complex.” Marking an end to the powerful trope of the edit...

When precocious and inquisitive Jessie is caught in a compromising position with her foster sibling Rene, she, being the most unruly is shown the door. It is no long before she is on the steps of Madame Lafronde's home for wayward delinquents, young woman of licentious character and looks to match. Seeing that Jessie is slight of frame and young of features she sees an opportunity to earn a not inconsiderable amount of a money from the gentlemen callers that usually drop into her establish...

Charlie Powerscourt, senior at an English boarding school, of voracious sexual appetite and loose of morals, loves nothing more than a fine fumble with his fellow boarders. In a variety of combinations and permutations he and his accomplished and affluent peers will enjoy many a night in the wildest of abandons. But not before Gaston, the group's, foreign addition and knowledgeable in all libidinous things Parisian regales them in a tale or two to whip them up into a veritable frenzy; tale...

Charlie Powerscourt returns! Senior at an English boarding school, of voracious sexual appetite and loose of morals, he loves nothing more than a fine fumble with his fellow boarders. In a variety of combinations and permutations he and his accomplished and affluent peers will enjoy many a night in the wildest of abandons. But not before Gaston, the group's, foreign addition and knowledgeable in all libidinous things Parisian regales them in a tale or two to whip them up into a veritable f...

When his drunken and impoverished brother dies, Lord Roxboro is none too pleased to discover he is to act as ward to two nieces for surely they will be the dirty brats he remembers and will cost him dearly of his dwindling fortunes. However, as they depart the stagecoach at the door of his mansion what he sees are anything but childlike or urchin, his eyes in fact falling upon two young woman of stunning beauty and grace.Roxboro house is a den of the most libidinous and scandalous ...

This long-censored gem of Victorian erotica, presented here in its original unexpurgated form, tells the story of our fifty-year-old protagonist as he recounts in sumptuously graphic detail the sexual conquests which have flavoured his life from youth to man.A gentleman of means with an appetite to match, James Clinton uses his wealth and influence to seduce the timid Lady-set of his high-society into an orgiastic frenzy, freeing within each of them a long-suppressed desire to be d...

When Bolloxinion, King of Sodom, authorises same sex relations the women of his kingdom bereft of attention fall into the arms of each other and upon the various devices available to them. It is not long before the court and the court are reduced to erotic madness both men and women striving to find new ways to satisfy age old cravings.Written in 1684, and attributed to England's Libertine, Jon Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, The Farce of Sodom sets the bar for what was to foll...

Set in the form of a series of confessional essays, The Sins of the Cities of the Plain tells the tales of Jack Saul, "Mary-Ann", sold to one of his clients, Mr. Cambon, for approximately ₤20 per session. Among his fellow entertainers, wealthy patrons and a sappho or two, "Mary" reveals in graphically sumptuously graphic details the many modes and methods of how is taken. From group menages to intimate ruttings, no practice is left to the imagination.One of the first works...

Amidst the colourful backdrop of the roaring twenties, where money talked sweetly and seductively, a man of means and an appetite to match will pursue his sexual proclivities to true libertine proportions.Our 30 something narrator recounts his sexual history, from naive youth to rakish gentleman, in a deliciously graphic prose. With eager fairground adolescents, accommodating prostitutes, coquettish Parisians, and knowledgeable vixens, our protagonist bears witness and partakes in ...

When the retired widower of 50, Mr Bonham, espies the young and nubile shop-girl and farmer's daughter, Rosa, he immediately proposes to establish her in the best of finishing schools in London with the intention of making her his wife in 12 months. And should the lustful gentleman take liberties with the sweet and innocent girl prior to their marriage then so be it.Fearing that her father will make a fool of himself, and fearing even more the future state of her sizable inheritanc...

At each fragment of flesh revealed, the men's ardour redoubled and soon amounted to blind, bestial rage. At last, having had everything torn from her with the exception of her chemise, she contrived by a supreme effort to free her quivering body, and got on her feet for a moment. Seized again, the last veil was ripped from her white frame and she now appeared to the gaze of all stark naked and blushing, in all the bloom of her sculptural charms. It was enough to damn a saint. I...

As a young but precocious lady, Therese always suspected that there were pleasures to be had of the flesh. So when she espies her teacher Father Dirrag manipulating fellow student Eradice's buttocks with the 'Holy Rod', before copulating with the devout girl in the most lascivious of ways, Therese's interests in all things sexual reaches a peak. Eager to feel the spiritual release that Eradice thus describes to her, our young heroine embarks on an intimate journey of self discovery.