Erotic Stories

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.

Product details

• Authors: Everyman, Rowan (editor) Pelling
• Assisted by: Rowan Pelling (Editor), Pelling Rowan (Editor)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.11.2013
• EAN: 9781841596143
• ISBN: 978-1-84159-614-3
• No. of pages: 374
• Dimensions: 27 mm x 188 mm x 122 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS; EVERYMAN'S LIBR; Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS; EVERYMAN'S LIBR; EVERYMAN'S LIBR
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Erotica / General, Short Stories, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), FICTION / Erotica / Collections & Anthologies, Anthologies: general