Those of my readers who peruse the following pages and expect to find a pretty tale of surpassing interest, embellished with all the spice which fiction can suggest and a clever pen supply, will be egregiously mistaken, and had better close the volume at once. I am a plain matter-of-fact man, and relate only that which is strictly true, so that no matter how singular some of my statements may appear to those who have never passed through a similar experience, the avouchment that it is a co...

Hurt people hurt people.Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer's assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He's blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.

This deliciously decadent once-banned classic of vintage erotica, written anonymously in 1890, tells the wild and sordid story of a head-strong and fiercely confident young woman as she navigates the kinky and the morally loose corners, boudoirs, and parties of Victorian high-society.In the great tradition of 'Fanny Hill', Arabella, in her own words describes her remarkable life seeking all manner of erotic diversions.Her journey begins at a very exclusive party of the era;...

When Caroline enters Harry's world, he is not quite so prepared for her forwardness, vigour, and general moral and sexual abandon. Seducing Harry's sister Adelaide, a young woman ignored by her husband in all things intimate, Caroline penetrates deep into the hearts and souls of siblings yearning for the kind of liberation she all too freely exhibits.On becoming Harry's wife Caroline, keen to share in her free love philosophy and finding Harry none too resistant, opens up their hou...

Unaccustomed to hurrying, the aristocratic young lady slowly ascended the steps, where a housemaid awaited her. 'Lady Tingle waits in the drawing room to welcome you, Miss'. 'Very well, you may show me through', replied Astrid languidly, dangling a small, blue parasol from her wrist. The house was cool, smelling pleasantly of lavender and wood polish. The fragrance of newly baked bread wafted through from some distant kitchen, making Astrid's finely cut nostrils twitch agreeably. Opening t...

One of the most uncompromising, bizarre, and erotic novels to emerge from the Victorian underground, written by an anonymous author in c1890, 'First Training' recounts the sexual coming of age of a young Victorian woman.Under strict and sagely tutelage, Clara will succumb to pleasures unparalleled and, in so being trained in the arts of spanking and flagellation, learns to bend all, men and women alike, to her lascivious will.This book contains graphic descriptions ...

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.

The Romance of Lust, or Early Experiences is a Victorian erotic novel written anonymously in four volumes during the years 1873–1876 and published by William Lazenby. The Romance of Lust is elegant, explicit and shocking. Written by an anonymous author, this classic Victorian-era erotic novel traces the sexual awakening of Charlie Roberts, an infinitely potent teenager indulging in his lust for refined partners of the highest social standing and most sinful desires.Partially censore...

'Raw, relentless ... Feverish' New Yorker'This is a devastating book about harm. It's about the harm that is unleashed when one person swaps their humanity for what you can really only call evil' Sunday Times'A controlled, exquisitely written book, it disturbs and disgusts, but it also mesmerises and, at certain moments, charms in its quiet brutality' Amia Srinivasan, Harper'sThroughout he...

Vintage erotica, first published in 1898.

In the same wonderfully graphic tradition as "Flossie", "The Romance of Violette" tells the sexual coming of age of a naive but incredibly inquisitive young woman at the loving tutelage of our thirty-year-old narrator, Christian.When a young seamstress assistant takes refuge in the rooms of Christian, he is immediately enamoured with her beauty and innocence. Heart all a flutter, the feeling is more than mutual as Violette is soon left swooning from her first kiss.What foll...

My Secret Life brought us the story of Walter and his unerring pursuit of sexual pleasures unabashed by the conformity about him. In 'Eveline' however, we have a rare example of a woman's perspective on sexual liberation, as our heroine embarks on a grand voyage of the male and female physique, savouring all from stable boy to sailor to lord and lady.Altogether headstrong and knowledgeable in the deeds and devices of libertine pleasures, Eveline lives to experience the sup...