Wordsworth Classic Erotica
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The Wordsworth Erotica Collection includes some of the finest Victorian and Edwardian examples of the genre.
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Frank and I, an erotic and delightful Victorian novel of hidden sexuality and erotic escapades is a classic of its genre.
The narrator of the story, a wealthy young man, meets a youth and, taken by his beauty and good manners, invites him home. Discovering a lapse in obedience in his charge, he commences to flog him, in the traditionally humiliating English manner. One can imagine his surprise when the young man, confounded in déshabillé, turns out to be a young woman of surpassing charms.
Their subsequent adventures along the byways of delight and pleasure provide a bold volume, unearthing not a few of the more esoteric sexual proclivities of its day.
The Wordsworth Erotica Collection includes some of the finest Victorian and Edwardian examples of the genre.
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The Pearl was an extraordinary subterranean magazine that had a brief life of eighteen months in the years 1879 and 1880. It was devoted to unrestrained erotica, comprising astonishing sexual escapades, jokes and bawdy rhymes.
This volume contains three of the novellas which were serialised in The Pearl. Lady Pokingham; or They All Do It, Sub-Umbra; or Sport Among the She-Noodles and La Rose d’Amour; or The Adventures of a Gentleman in Search of Pleasure are all classics of the genre, and throw a gaudy light on the clandestine concerns of one section of Victorian society.
The Wordsworth Erotica Collection includes some of the finest Victorian and Edwardian examples of the genre.
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One of the most inventive, bizarre and erotic novels to emerge from the Victorian underground, First Training recounts the sexual coming-of-age of a young English lady. Under the tutelage of her imperious stepmother, the voluptuous Clara learns how to make all around her cater to her every whim.
The Wordsworth Erotica Collection includes some of the finest Victorian and Edwardian examples of the genre.
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The complete text of this classic Victorian sexual romp is taken from a rare copy in the Private Case of the British Library. It describes the elaborate erotic revenge taken by Jack, the narrator, on Alice who had rejected his advances.
When Jack acquires a flat in London's fashionable West End he discovers a secret room ideally suited for his exacting demands. Fitted with all the accoutrements to enhance sensual pleasure, Jack makes full use of his new soundproof boudoir employing silken ropes and the imaginative use of feathers and electricity that stimulate more than just the imagination.
Purportedly recounting the history of a sado-masochistic relationship, Jack understands that it is discomfiture rather than pain that acts as a powerful aphrodisiac, and his creative yet gentle disciplines ‘convert’ Alice, her impudent maid Fanny and the jovial widow Blount. Between them they even an old score with a supercilious society matron and her obnoxious daughter.
The Wordsworth Erotica Collection includes some of the finest Victorian and Edwardian examples of the genre.
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A Weekend Visit is the sequel to The Way of a Man with a Maid, also published by Wordsworth Editions.
In it, Jack, the narrator both of this and the earlier book, is invited to stay in the country with the beautiful young widow of a deceased friend, her handsome mother Mrs Bell and Mrs Bell's lovely eighteen-year-old ward Alice.
Together, the four amuse themselves with a degree of inventiveness befitting the characters in this saucy example of the underground tradition. Feathers, punts and other exotic paraphernalia lend spice to this well-written tale of harmless pleasure.
The Wordsworth Erotica Collection includes some of the finest Victorian and Edwardian examples of the genre.
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The four volumes of The Romance of Lust were issued between 1873 and 1876, and they comprise one of the longest and best erotic novels in existence. It is a witty first-person account of the sexual education of Charles Roberts, perhaps the most famous hero of the Victorian underground.
The narrative is the product of several members of a circle of amateurs d'erotisme, collated by one of its leading lights, William Simpson Potter. This volume includes letters that were produced in the famous divorce trial of George Henry Cavendish and his wife of 1866 and which had a major influence on the authors of this classic work.
The Wordsworth Erotica Collection includes some of the finest Victorian and Edwardian examples of the genre.
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When the handsome and aristocratic commander of a gunboat is shipwrecked on the coast of Morocco, he is rescued by nine beautiful ladies, the Pasha's concubines. Each of them is of a different nationality, and Lord George Herbert has just twelve hours to enact his wildest fantasies.
The clandestine advertisement for the first edition of this Victorian classic commends ‘our splendid hero, who puts the whole lovely female squad through their drill…’
The Wordsworth Erotica Collection includes some of the finest Victorian and Edwardian examples of the genre.
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Edwardian in tone and Rabelaisian in content, this underground English classic first published in 1907 relates the bawdy adventures of a young gentleman, Cecil Prendergast. While a student at Oxford, Cecil succumbs to the erotic allure of the domineering Mrs Harcourt. Under her careful tutelage, he avidly learns the sublime arts of both submission and triumph with the lovely Muriel, Juliette, Gladys, and other adventurous young ladies she brings his way.