Overview
A perfect gift of timeless erotic stories ranging from ancient Greek myth to modern stories of longing and lust.
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.
- | Author: Rowan Pelling
- | Publisher: Everyman
- | Publication Date: Nov 21, 2013
- | Number of Pages:
- | Language: eng
- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9781841596143
- | ISBN-10: 1841596140
