A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceFor eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. "With bald honesty and brutal lyricism" (Elle), the anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners in all their humanity, as well as their cravenness, corrupted first by hunger and then by the Russians. "Spare and unpredictable, minutely observed and utt...

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...

Vintage erotica, first published in 1898.

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.

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...

Illustrated.

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....

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.

A classic of children's book illustrator of pen-and-ink line drawings and watercolors.There is a story-book that will be occupied for children to read at bedtime or anytime. You can have this e-book for an incredibly lower price.

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.

An elegant school mansion is turned into a "school" where Muriel and other young English aristocrats receive unusual instruction in the byways of love. Shy and timorous at first, Muriel and her friends soon learn to take sensual delight in their strict curriculum.