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Tropic of Cancer [MultiFormat]
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 Henry Miller's best-known and most famous work (on anybody's top 100 list, and among this year's top 50 sellers), was first published by Girodias's father in 1934. The book itself was accepted by Jack Kahane in '31, but the economy and Kahane's legal struggles led him to continually delay launching the title into print, a situation that was remedied only by Anais Nin's agreeing to pay printer's costs several years later. (A few accounts have Nin receiving the money from her rich broker husband, ... more info>> (Published: 1934)
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Sexus [The Rosy Crucifixion Book I] [MultiFormat]
by Henry Miller
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First volume in the Rosy Crucifixion series, originally published not by the Olympia Press, but rather Editions du Chene, Girodias' prior imprint (he was forced out after financial difficulties). Sexus is among Miller's most diverting works, at times erudite, dull, erotic and tame, chronicling the author's first wife, his final days in New York, his crushing failures, and his many women.
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The 120 Days of Sodom [MultiFormat]
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Publication of the Marquis de Sade's infamous works were subject to a lengthy court dispute in France, with Olympia losing in the end (Girodias eventually relocated to NY as America and the UK began liberalizing just as legendary Gallic tolerance shifted in another direction). The plot is simple: a group of amoral libertines retire to a sealed chateau with an entourage of innocent victims, all of whom are murdered in ways both sexual and Byzantine. De Sade's taste for death and torture may have ... more info>>
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The Lustful Turk [MultiFormat]
by Anonymous
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Scenes in the Harem of an Eastern Potentate faithfully and vividly depicting in a series of letters from a young and beautiful English lady to her friend in England the full particulars of her ravishment and of her complete abandonment to all the salacious tastes of the Turks, the whole being described with that zest and simplicity which always gives guarantee of authenticity Actually a pre-Victorian title, dating roughly to the 1820s, but a work that, in its epistolary fashion, set the stage fo... more info>>
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Our Lady of the Flowers [MultiFormat]
by Jean Genet
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Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady of the Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictional work. The first draft was written while Genet was incarcerated in a French prison; when the manuscript was discovered and destroyed by officials, Genet, still a prisoner, immediately set about writing it again. It isn't difficult to understand how and why Genet was able to reproduce the novel under such circumstances, because Our Lady of the Flowers is nothing less than a mythic recreation of G... more info>>
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The Memoirs of Josephine Mutzenbacher [MultiFormat]
by Felix Salten
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The Austrian erotic classic that'll make any parent think twice about taken their child to meet a beloved children's book author. Written by Felix Salten (Bambi), The Memoirs of Josephine Mutzenbacher is the story of a young girl and her many amorous encounters, with friends, family, and the local priest, culminating in her establishing a career as a high-priced courtesan. Again, by the author of Bambi.
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Candy [MultiFormat]
by Maxwell Kenton
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Maxwell Kenton's bawdy masterpiece, first published by the Olympia Press in 1958 and the subject of innumerable lawsuits, piracies and bad film adaptations since, is a modern take on Candide (from authors Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg in tandem). Candy Christian, a beautiful girl who just happened to be born on Valentine's Day, writes a paper on Contemporary Human Love for her instructor, Professor Mephesto, saying that "to give of oneself--fully--is not merely a duty prescribed by an outm... more info>>
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House of Incest [MultiFormat]
by Anais Nin
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Nin's first novel, a dream-like reverie, stands among her most-challenging.
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Justine, or Good Conduct Well Chastised [MultiFormat]
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De Sade's erotic classic, this is the tale of sister Justine, orphaned, cast out, constantly trying to be good and do good, and in no way getting rewarded for her virtue. A work that was first banned by no less than Napoleon himself.
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Midnight Intimacies [MultiFormat]
by Anonymous
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Legendary title, first printed in a limited edition of some 150 copies. During a lull in a wild night of lust, one woman lets her companions know some of her many varied experiences, with men, women, boys... and livestock. Later republished by Grove in an edited, yet impossible to find version, we've done what we could cleaning up the original (for spelling).
Words: 42764 - Reading Time: 122-171 min.
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Moscow Nights [MultiFormat]
by Vlas Tenin
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One of the few top-quality books to emerge from the American Olympia Press, Moscow Nights recalls the heady, early days of the Bolshevik Revolution, when free love was all the rage. Half a century later, we meet Timur, a dealer in the underground mortuary biz, who with his gang offers top-notch burial in the right cemetary... for a price. Of course, Timur and his friends are also involved in prostitution and drug dealing while indulging repeatedly, as Girodias himself put it, "in the priapic del... more info>>
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My Mother Taught Me [MultiFormat]
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One of six novels to be published by the short-lived Danish Olympia Press (Girodias' legal troubles in the early '60s were horrendous, so he tried his hand in Copenhagen briefly before emigrating to America). My Mother Taught Me is a special Traveller's Companion title, and ranks as the most-requested book we've ever received. This is the tale of Lars, a Swedish boy, raised in an all-male orphanage without ever seeing even pictures of women, adopted into a new household with enthusiastic sibling... more info>> (Published: 1964)
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Rape [MultiFormat]
by Marcus Van Heller
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Oddly, our final installment of works by the great Marcus Van Heller is this title, the first the man ever wrote. Rape, in the author's own words: "is a very simple story about a man with an obsession. A man searching for an ideal woman; for a satisfaction and content the orgasm seems to offer but constantly witholds." This book was an instant success for Stevenson (and the Olympia Press), leading many a soldier or naval crewman to write to Girodias, asking when the next Van Heller was coming ou... more info>>
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Roman Orgy [MultiFormat]
by Marcus Van Heller
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Author van Heller is a legend among writers of erotic fiction, so good that his name and craft were often imitated, but never duplicated. Considered by many to be his finest work, Roman Orgy is a retelling of Spartacus. In this case, our hero is a servant, willful but submissive, until one day when Clodia, his master's wife, lures him into the baths, teases him, makes love to him... and then cries rape after the pair are found out. Forced to become a gladiator, Spartacus survives the coliseum, r... more info>>
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Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery [MultiFormat]
by John Wilmot
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The most obscene play ever written. Rochester, a member of the court of Charles II of the England, had a rep as the most outre sexual deviant of his day. The drama gives us Sodom's king, Bolloxinion, his wife Cuntigratia, their children, generals, ministers and servants engaging in an impossibly wide series of activities, (hook being that *traditional* sex was abandoned, by edict...)
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Terror [MultiFormat]
by Marcus Van Heller
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The oft-imitated but never duplicated Marcus Van Heller (John Stevenson), is back with this fast-paced account of rebellion, Algeria, the National Liberation Front and quite a bit of sex, some of it forced, some of it paid for, some given sweetly.
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The Sexual Life of Robinson Crusoe [MultiFormat]
by Michael Gall
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An account that delves into what poor Crusoe must have been during those long years he stayed alone on his island. The Sexual Life of Robinson Crusoe is a well-written guide to onanism, beastiality, homosexuality, memory and the power of fantasy. Author Gall was a close friend of Olympia Press founder Maurice Girodias, as evidenced by the celebratory preface. This work is a comic classic that could hardly have been produced anywhere else.
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The Thief's Journal [MultiFormat]
by Jean Genet
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Genet's fictionalized and distant account of his rambles through France, Czechoslavakia, Germany and elsewhere in the '30s and '40s, covering his time in prison, his relationships with men such as the one-armed Stilitano, along with erotic accounts of his lovers during the period, and interspersed with meditation and daydreams. Considered a classic of gay literature, though not quite in the class of Our Lady of the Flowers (forthcoming). (Published: 1954)
Words: 84500 - Reading Time: 241-338 min.
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The Wisdom of the Lash [The Story of O] [MultiFormat]
by Dominique Aury
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Dominique Aury's world-famous and world-class gift to her lover was first published by Olympia, won a prize, and sent the police after publisher Maurice Girodias. This version derives from the second, improved translation, dubbed "The Wisdom of the Lash" in an effort to fool the cops. Not imported into the U.S. until the early '60s, the fate of O was debated extensively in courts, until Olympia was finally declared sole owner of all English rights, a fact pirates have had some trouble dealing wi... more info>>
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Tropic of Capricorn [MultiFormat]
by Henry Miller
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"Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos." Miller's sequel to Tropic of Cancer gives us more of his life, and in particular his days at the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company (Western Union.) It was only with publication of this work that Miller found himself able to leave Paris. (Published: 1938)
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A Bedside Odyssey [MultiFormat]
by Michael Gall
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With the arguable exception of Brad Pitt's casting as Achilles, this eBook is the most perverse thing to happen to Homer in millenia. Written by Michael Gall (who also did The Sexual Life of Robinson Crusoe), A Beside Odyssey presents a revised Ulysses (of "The Thousand Shots"), and his many romps with nymphs, goddesses, thousand-holed sirens, and of course Circe. The work is also notable for an hysterical preface by Girodias himself, and some great alliterative titles, like The Nymphomaniacal N... more info>>
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A Gallery of Nudes [MultiFormat]
by J. Hume Parkinson
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A novel of voyeurism. One man chooses to detach himself from the fray, yet is still destroyed by a woman. Fascinating read first published 1957 as Vol. 41 of the Traveller's Companion Series.
Words: 62092 - Reading Time: 177-248 min.
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A Tale of Satisfied Desire [MultiFormat]
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George Bataille's notorious The Story of the Eye was first published (anoynmously) in 1928. Olympia picked up this work, and brought out their translation, curiously choosing to rename it A Tale of Satisfied Desire. This book is the shocking account of erotica's darkest side, with excesses and extremes, obession and the most forbidden of passions.
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Adam And Eve [MultiFormat]
by Marcus Van Heller
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Marcus Van Heller's (John Stevenson), account of a boy and a girl, innocent and in Eve's case somewhat frigid, who flee the countryside for London, him to be a painter, her an actress. Along the way, she trades her innocence for a career, with sometimes disastrous results, he gets caught up in the ecstastic arts scene, the two part, until finally reuniting in an earth-shattering conclusion.
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Amorous Exploits of a Young Rakehell [MultiFormat]
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Guillaume Apollinaire's account of a 15-year-old budding libertine's summer on the farm, where he congresses with maids, servants, passersby, an aunt and finally a sister, while outside the manor peasants go for creatures of the four-legged variety, is a classic unparalleled in its content, brevity and wit. Apollinaire ranks among the most renowned French poets, dying of the Spanish flu after suffering grave injury in WWI. He's said to have been the curator of forbidden works at the Bibliothèque... more info>>
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