Erotic Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375712399 ISBN 13: 9780375712395

Publisher: Everyman's Library USA, 2014

Synopsis

Erotic Stories is a treasury of amorous tales from around the world, ranging from ancient Greek myths to modern stories of longing and lust.

From the innocent yearning of Daphnis and Chloe evoked by Longus to the sadomasochism of Pauline Réage's Story of O, this anthology explores human desire across the ages in all its dark complexity. Whether intensely raw or subtly insinuating, the short stories gathered here--by writers as different as Boccaccio and Chekhov, Anaïs Nin and Allan Gurganus--are calculated to unsettle and arouse. Here too are scenes from such classic novels as Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Nicholson Baker's The Fermata, from Junichiro Tanizaki's The Key and Sarah Waters's Tipping the Velvet. Accounts of ardor and transgression also flow from unexpected pens: an astonishingly explicit scene from Edith Wharton's unfinished "Beatrice Palmato," for example, and Guy de Maupassant's heated "Idyll," which describes a young peasant woman offering her breast to a starving stranger on a train.

Hunger is the fierce undercurrent to these tales: 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.

About this title

Book Description:

A beautiful gift hardback of some of the greatest erotic literature written. Including stories by Anais Nin, Edith Wharton, Anton Chekhov, E.M Forster, Pauline Re´age, D.H. Lawrence, Choderlos de Laclos and Sarah Waters amongst others. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET CLASSICS

About the Author:

ROWAN PELLING is a British journalist and broadcaster who has contributed regularly to The Independent on Sunday, The Mail on Sunday, and GQ, and is now a columnist for The Daily Telegraph. She is the former editor of the monthly magazine The Erotic Review and was a judge of the Man Booker Prize in 2004.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library USA
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0375712399
• ISBN 13: 9780375712395
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Pelling Rowan