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...

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...

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...

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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.

'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.

The young whores of Paris--loose, desirable and carefree. The sexual freedom of the capital city had given them morals that were, at best, unfettered. They were ready for anything--any perversion, any combination, any pastime that would give vent to their demented sexual cravings. And their customers, both young and old, were more than willing to participate in the bizarre lusts of these unusual girls of the street. They found in them a passionate outlet for their own desires, an abandoned...

Two-volume tale, first published by Charles Carrington in Paris in 1907. Volume I presents the education and maturation of Cecil Prendergast, who while studying at Oxford gets his real education from one Mrs. Harcourt. In volume II, Cecil applies what he's learned to the world around. Classic of S&M much-beloved for its convincing depiction of both sides of the equation.

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...

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...