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Tropic of Cancer [MultiFormat]
by Henry Miller
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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)
Words: 107000 - Reading Time: 305-428 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>>
Words: 59201 - Reading Time: 169-236 min.
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The 120 Days of Sodom [MultiFormat]
by Marquis de Sade
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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>>
Words: 175000 - Reading Time: 500-700 min.
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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.
Words: 56314 - Reading Time: 160-225 min.
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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)
Words: 131064 - Reading Time: 374-524 min.
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Daffodil, or Accidents Will Happen [MultiFormat]
by Cecil Barr
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Best-selling Obelisk book of the '30s. Daffodil is the light-hearted account of a young lady who travels the arts world of Paris, meeting men and women, resisting their advances, at times in clever fashion, other times almost violently, but doing her part for the cause and posing nude. At once modern and innocent, likely an inspiration for Candy. She does one day catch that true love.
Words: 48872 - Reading Time: 139-195 min.
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Darling [MultiFormat]
by Harriet Daimler
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Considered the best work by author Harriet Daimler (Iris Owens), Darling is an oddly titled but very explicit rape fantasy. How explicit: after accepting Owens, and offering her the $2 a day he gave to all his writers, Girodias took the young woman aside, and asked her to, please, tone down the work a bit as it was not necessary for every page to be sexual. Fortunately, enough gets through...
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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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Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded, v1 [MultiFormat]
by Marquis de Sade
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The first volume of de Sade's notorious classic. This series, starring fair Justine's younger sister, is a unique mixture of philosophy, sex, anti-Catholicism, bondage, rape, murder, sex and fecal dining. Volume 1 chronicles Juliette's final days of convent-living, and her introduction to society.
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Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded, v2 [MultiFormat]
by Marquis de Sade
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The second volume of de Sade's notorious classic. This series, starring fair Justine's younger sister, is a unique mixture of philosophy, sex, anti-Catholicism, bondage, rape, murder, sex and fecal dining. Volume 2 covers Juliette's introduction to Monsieur de Saint-Fond, a series of wild-feasts, the nature of God, the weaknesses of those who fear an afterlife, and appropriate chastisings for same.
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Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded, v3 [MultiFormat]
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This series, starring fair Justine's younger sister, is a unique mixture of philosophy, sex, anti-Catholicism, bondage, rape, murder, sex and fecal dining. Volume 3 introduces Juliette to The Sodality of the Friends of Crime, and showcases her initiation with that group.
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Justine, or Good Conduct Well Chastised [MultiFormat]
by Marquis de Sade
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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.
Words: 52309 - Reading Time: 149-209 min.
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Nexus [The Rosy Crucifixion Book III] [MultiFormat]
by Henry Miller
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A stunning work that sings with energy and expectation, Nexus is the last volume of the Rosy Crucifixion series, and the last major effort from this renowned author. Speaking of his life with June, and her friend who had gone on before, the work paints this bizarre trio. Still later, the time comes when Henry, finally, is free of NY, free of America, and free to truly begin writing as he'd been wanting to for so long. The only major novel in American letters to begin "Woof Woof," as it must.
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Plexus [The Rosy Crucifixion Book II] [MultiFormat]
by Henry Miller
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Second volume in the Rosy Crucifixion series. More about Henry and June, also chronicling the author's travels to the deep South, and his work as an encyclopedia salesmen (after he'd left personnel).
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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.
Words: 197480 - Reading Time: 564-789 min.
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The White Paper [MultiFormat]
by Jean Cocteau
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Cocteau's short work, published anonymously in 1928 by the author (who never admitted to writing it; just providing some pictures), was translated by Austryn Wainhouse for Olympia in the early '50s. This is the tale of a young man coming to grips with his own sexuality, seeking shelter in the church, and finally, in the land of Cambaceres, coming to terms with it.
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With Open Mouth [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. With Open Mouth begins almost sweetly, with an innocent boy gazing at (and dreaming about) a nude woman from the city who's visiting his town. From there our hero travels with her, receives the attentions of her friends, learns about brothels, gangsters, crime and drugs, eventually fleeing to a gypsy camp.
Words: 52536 - Reading Time: 150-210 min.
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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.
Words: 19123 - Reading Time: 54-76 min.
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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.
Words: 56815 - Reading Time: 162-227 min.
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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>>
Words: 20711 - Reading Time: 59-82 min.
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Big Man in the Saddle [MultiFormat]
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Surprising western adventure about a Irish immigrant, fresh from the wars but not out of trouble, seeking to make a go of things out west. He also makes a go with a Mexican cutie, and, for most of the story, finds himself tangled up with innocent twins ... well, maybe not so innocent. Of course, it's near impossible for him to choose between them. But luckily, that situation resolves itself nicely.
Words: 59849 - Reading Time: 170-239 min.
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Black Spring [MultiFormat]
by Henry Miller
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Completing, in a sense, the trilogy begun with Tropic of Cancer, Miller again presents us with anecdotes of life in Brooklyn. His work at the Tailor is much-discussed, among other humerous anecdotes. There are ten stories in this volume, loosely arranged. An odd (-er-than-usual for Mr. Miller) publishing history accompanies this work. Miller actually wrote it while simultaneously revising Tropic of Cancer, working on Tropic of Capricorn and completing a study of D.H. Lawrence. Hectic in its pace... more info>>
Words: 67154 - Reading Time: 191-268 min.
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Bottom's Up [MultiFormat]
by Jock Carroll
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In 1951, photojournalist Jock Carroll wandered the set of Niagara, the film that made Marilyn Monroe a star. The pictures he took then are themselves erotic classics, catching Marilyn in many daring poses, but Mr. Carroll wasn't done. Later, he wrote Bottom's Up, about a naive photojournalist who meets a stunning actress in Canada ... and some other girls when he heads to New York in the company of a more experienced journo, the latter fellow educating our hero on the uses of an expense account,... more info>>
Words: 77998 - Reading Time: 222-311 min.
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