A perfect gift of timeless erotic stories ranging from ancient Greek myth to modern stories of longing and lust. This beautifully jacketed Everyman's Library Pocket Classics hardcover anthology has a full-cloth binding and silk ribbon marker. Accounts of ardour and transgression also flow from unexpected pens: an astonishingly explicit scene from an unfinished novel by Edith Wharton, and Guy de Maupassant's heated tale of a young peasant woman offering her breast to a starving stranger on a train. Hunger is the fierce undercurrent to these stories: the gnawing lust of one lover for another, or the greedy pursuit of a particular inclination. The elegant depravity of an eighteenth-century French aristocrat, the dreamlike seductions of an Egyptian jinni in the form of a snake, the brutal anonymity of a highway truck-stop encounter--the stories in this richly varied collection reveal that the urge to articulate sexual desire is as inventive as it is timeless.
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- Year Published:
- 2013
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Hardback
- Editors:
- Pelling, Rowan
- ISBN:
- 9781841596143
- Number of Pages:
- 400
- Publication Date:
- 21/11/2013
- Publisher:
- Everyman
- Series:
- Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS
- Language:
- English
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Publication Date:
- 21/11/2013
- SKU:
- 9781841596143