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...

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.

The words from this young girl in the past made a connection with me in the present. I was drawn into her world, as though at every moment I could look upon her face and see her expressions, in addition I felt as though her joys and heartaches were mine.This books context still holds true in this day and age. A hard to put down work of art..with a unexpected ending. Highly reccommended reading to the youth and young at heart.THE best preface to this journal written by a you...

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....

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...

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 ...

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...

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.

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;...

There were three of us—Mary, Eliza, and myself. I was approaching fifteen, Mary was about a year younger, and Eliza between twelve and thirteen years of age. Mamma treated us all as children, and was blind to the fact that I was no longer what I had been. Although not tall for my age, nor outwardly presenting a manly appearance, my passions were awakening, and the distinctive feature of my sex, although in repose it looked magnificent enough, was very sufficiently developed when under the ...

In order to escape the Republican purges of revolutionary France, Augustus and his mother must take refuge in his Aunt's nunnery, the Convent of St. Claire. Dressed to deceive and going by the name of 'Augustine' he soon bears witness to the most lascivious acts of chastisement at the hands of one lusty Father Eustace upon one young, lithe, and eager Sister Emilie.What follows is a thoroughly mischievous frolic from one nun to another, all willing to be so educated in the sins of t...

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.