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"My Secret Life", the gargantuan erotic autobiography of a wealthy Victorian English gentleman has been described as "the strangest book ever written". Comprising one-hundred-and-eighty-four chapters and over one million words, the epic confessional describes in eloquent and explicit detail the exploits of a man (who refers to himself simply as "Walter"), whose life was devoted to the pursuit of erotic adventure and carnal pleasure.

"My Secret Life", the gargantuan erotic autobiography of a wealthy Victorian English gentleman has been described as "the strangest book ever written". Comprising one-hundred-and-eighty-four chapters and over one million words, the epic confessional describes in eloquent and explicit detail the exploits of a man (who refers to himself simply as "Walter"), whose life was devoted to the pursuit of erotic adventure and carnal pleasure. Now for the first time in the history of this infamous erotic masterpiece, film composer Dominic Crawford Collins is producing a fully scored narration of the complete unabridged text.

"My Secret Life", the gargantuan erotic autobiography of a wealthy Victorian English gentleman has been described as "the strangest book ever written". Comprising one-hundred-and-eighty-four chapters and over one million words, the epic confessional describes in eloquent and explicit detail the exploits of a man (who refers to himself simply as "Walter"), whose life was devoted to the pursuit of erotic adventure and carnal pleasure.

When De Cocksdorp's head dyker Joosie Twaat wakes to find her finger has been sloppily inserted in her own now-leaking dyke, François and his crew immediately come to help De Cocksdorp. But small leaks become large leaks, and large leaks become gushes. And before long, Joosie's gaping dyke threatens to flood the whole town.

My Secret Life, the gargantuan erotic autobiography of a wealthy Victorian English gentleman has been described as "the strangest book ever written". Comprising one-hundred-and-eighty-four chapters and over one million words, the epic confessional describes in eloquent and explicit detail the exploits of a man (who refers to himself simply as "Walter"), whose life was devoted to the pursuit of erotic adventure and carnal pleasure.

"My Secret Life", the gargantuan erotic autobiography of a wealthy Victorian English gentleman has been described as "the strangest book ever written". Comprising one-hundred-and-eighty-four chapters and over one million words, the epic confessional describes in eloquent and explicit detail the exploits of a man (who refers to himself simply as "Walter"), whose life was devoted to the pursuit of erotic adventure and carnal pleasure.

My Secret Life, the gargantuan erotic autobiography of a wealthy Victorian English gentleman has been described as "the strangest book ever written". Comprising one-hundred-and-eighty-four chapters and over one million words, the epic confessional describes in eloquent and explicit detail the exploits of a man (who refers to himself simply as "Walter"), whose life was devoted to the pursuit of erotic adventure and carnal pleasure.

When Lady Christina Rowan began to have feelings for her current lover, Benedict Windham, brother to the duke of Manchester, she immediately cuts him loose before she can become too attached. Or so she thought. Time away from Christina has made Benedict realize how deep his own feelings for her run; not only is she the most exciting lover he's ever had, he's actually fallen in love with her. So when he returns to London for the season, he's determined to court his former lover and turn her into his wife.

The dark, erotic duet by Victoria Vale, now in one audiobook bundle! "Dark, gothic, and sizzling hot, The Villain is Jane Eyre meets Fifty Shades" (NYT best-selling author Anna Zaires) Book One: The Villain - Lady Daphne Fairchild braves the journey from London to the wilds of Scotland alone with one purpose in mind: confront the man who purposely and methodically set out to ruin the men of her family. But what he demands in exchange for answers will thrust Daphne into a world of mystery, hatred, and lust.

What happens when a serial seductress meets the only man who can claim her heart? With the freedom her status as a lady of immense wealth and aristocratic blood gives her, Alicia Laurence can do anything her heart desires, including seducing her way around the world. However, she is not only a seductress but also a woman of ambition who insists on using her skills for the benefit of her community.

When her aunt found her a position in the Duke of McClellan's household staff, Audrey Fisher was excited to be entering the service of such a distinguished nobleman. His reputation for both charm and generosity fills young Audrey's head with silly daydreams of being swept off her feet. Of course, no duke would stoop to court a maid. But it turns out the virile, young Duke wants his new maid to do more than just polish his silver. Being the hands-on type, he's going to train the young, chaste, virginal maid himself.

When Princess Guendolen’s privileged existence is shattered by tribal war and the threat of rape impends, she is left with no choice but to surrender her virginity to a lowly commoner. The spoiled sovereign expects a night of torment and shame. Instead, her unlikely bedfellow introduces her to a world of carnal delights.

In this gripping erotic romance novel set in times long past - a time of lords and ladies and a time of chivalry, Sir Godfrey has his sights set on Adelina, a fair maiden with a beautiful and elegant aura. At a time just before war arrives at the kingdom, Sir Godfrey has to make a decision as to where his priorities are. It's His Kingdom.

La princesse Elisabeth Bathory était dans un grand émoi depuis qu'elle avait perdu son chapelain. Il avait quitté ce monde en odeur de sainteté, mais d'une façon si brusque, si inattendue, qu'on ne put songer, avant le dernier soupir, à lui donner un successeur.

"La vie ardente de Jules César" est à la fois un texte historique et une vision romancée de la vie de Jules César. Certains aspects de la vie très privée de Jules César ont été développés selon une vision romanesque d'un personnage dont la vie est digne du plus grand des romans historiques ou d'aventure !

"La pantoufle de Sapho" est une illustration de la notion de "masochisme", qui doit son nom à cet écrivain. La domination de cette histoire est charmante mais sans grand danger, pour notre plus grand plaisir.

1717. Pour fuir un mariage arrangé et vivre auprès de l'homme qu'elle aime, Elizabeth, jeune marquise anglaise, accepte de tout quitter et de prendre le large depuis le port de Liverpool. Direction le Nouveau Monde et la nouvelle vie qu'il promet. Mais le destin sépare les deux amants dès les premiers temps du voyage. Elizabeth et Mary, sa domestique et amie de toujours, embarquée à ses côtés, se retrouvent livrées à elles-mêmes dans la promiscuité libidineuse des croisières au long cours.

Ce roman débute par un clin d'œil et un pastiche de "L'amant de lady Chatterley" avant de voler de ses propres ailes et de s'inscrire dans la réalité socioculturelle de la fin du XXe siècle. De l'Angleterre des années 1920, l'auteur a déplacé l'histoire en Sologne, le bourgeois paraplégique des suites de la Grande guerre s'est métamorphosé en vieux banquier stérile, quant au garde-chasse, il est devenu garde-pêche.

Meet artist Rosemary Hall and follow her inevitable downfall brought by her lust for the famous Dorian Gray - a tale both familiar and new in this brilliant erotic mash-up of one of the world’s most beloved novels. With a mix of old fashioned Victorian debauchery and erotic 21st-century lust this cleverly sexed-up classic will leave you wanting more!

The earl of Sefton is delighted when he sees the midwife approaching bearing a tiny bundle. Within moments of being introduced to his new son, his world is shattered by the news that his wife did not survive the birth. Thorne, a man used to commanding regiments, puts his emotions aside to deal with providing for his newborn son. His first concern - one made known to the entire household by his heir's fully functioning lungs - is to secure a wet nurse.

Colorado, été 1973. June, épouse dévouée, est initiée par Elsa, sa jeune voisine sulfureuse, à des jeux interdits. Suite à l'insistante proposition de sa maîtresse, elle quitte son mari et accepte de partir en cavale à ses côtés. Sur les routes, les deux amantes s'enivrent d'amour et de sexe. Au gré de leurs pérégrinations, elles rencontrent une communauté hippie aux manières licencieuses et Sacha, grand ténébreux qui devient leur compagnon de voyage. Mais ce que June ignore, c'est le plan d'Elsa.

Per la cultura indiana, tra un uomo e una donna il Kama autentico, il piacere più profondo, coinvolge tutti e cinque i sensi. E' l'anima dei due amanti che guida i gesti, ma anche la profonda conoscenza l'uno dell'altra. Il Kamasutra descrive dettagliatamente e senza giri di parole, il corpo femminile e maschile, le parti erogene, le posizioni dell’amore e come raggiungere il piacere durante l’unione sessuale.

Jacinta Buchanan never particularly wanted to be married, but desperate times call for desperate measures. She needs a plan to ensure her future before her horrid uncle completely depletes the fortune her late father worked so hard to build. Hearing that a new, eligible bachelor has recently returned home to the manor just outside the village, she is quick to hatch a plan she believes will benefit them both.

Move over, Scarlett O'Hara! It's New England, 1861, and the troubles in the southern states seem a long way off for Jack Edgerton, the spoiled son of a prominent Vermont family. Howver, when he meets and falls in love with Aaron Johnson, the sexy son of a slave on the run from Virginia, Edgerton's world is turned upside down.

In the roaring '20s, Charlie Doyle, the ink still wet on his Dartmouth journalism degree, answers an ad for a job as secretary to Edward Kilsby, Lord Withycombe and renowned flying ace of the Great War. The ad leads him to expect excitement, but Charlie never expects quite so much. When Edward is hired to find missing archaeologist Sir Alexander Spencer, Charlie is about to go for the ride of his life.

Married once to a Baron who needed a young bride to bear him an heir, Cordelia Astley found herself in an untenable situation after his death, until Philip Stanley, the Marquess of Dunbury, asked her to be his bride. She knows he didn't marry her for love, but he was her white knight, and once they're married, she finds herself falling in love with him. It would be a fairy-tale ending if it wasn't for her stepdaughter, Gabrielle.

Victorian England is not kind to those born without privilege, and yet Lillian Lancaster has made a home for herself and a scrawny feral cat. Lilly is happiest working in the gardens, knowing she can never match their beauty. She is one of the flower-girls on the streets selling the bouquets she makes with love for mere pennies.

Spirited Chelsea decided she'd sooner run away to London than return to her vain and selfish guardian Aunt Augusta. But in her wildest dreams, she never imagined her dear godmother would arrange a Season - or convince the town's most eligible bachelor to take her under his wing.

An erotic retelling of a timeless literary classic. Jane Eyre has lived a sheltered, callous life. Orphaned at a young age and despised by her remaining family, she is shipped off to Lowood School and can only dream of tenderness and affection. Upon accepting a governess position at Thornfield Hall, a world of passion, desire, and sex explodes before her naive eyes in the form of the brooding, dashing master of the house: Mr. Rochester.

Elizabeth Petre—Daughter of the Prime Minister and Wife of the Chancellor of the Exchequer—seeks to seduce her coldly indifferent husband. Ramiel Devington—Bastard Son of a wealthy English Countess and a Powerful Arabic Sheikh —agrees to be her tutor. The Perfumed Garden of the Cheikh Nefzaoui , an ancient Arabic treatise on Erotic Love, is their textbook.

Fleshtown, grosse bourgade du Kansas. Deux dangereux pervers se sont échappés du bagne. Darling est seule : tous les habitants sont partis faire la fête à la foire des éleveurs de porcs. Pendant toute une longue nuit, elle va devenir la proie des deux forcenés. Dehors, la vie continue : le shérif Prentiss enquête sur un café-billard tenu par Sam, mari complaisant qui essaie de détourner la loi... en se servant de sa femme.

The widowed Duchess of Sailer has desires that are hard to fill in polite society. To that effect, she visits a brothel to have her bottom reddened. If word got out, her reputation would be ruined. So, when a member of society is murdered, and her name turns up in the books he is using to blackmail people, the metropolitan police show up on her doorstep. Olivia does the only thing she can to keep her name from being dragged through the mud: she agrees to take the investigator into her life so she can help him find a killer. Inspector Rupert McKinley expects to get in and out, and figure out who killed Lord Ethan. He doesn't care about Olivia's desires...until he starts to spend time with her, and realizes she's more interesting than he ever expected her to be. When their business relationship turns into a personal one, Rupert is determined to find the murderer before someone else - like Olivia - is killed.

On the surface, Mildred Abbott is a proper Regency miss. But secretly compromised, she longs to explore the pleasures of the flesh. Engaged to an uninspiring sycophant, she asks the influential nephew of her patroness in debauchery to interfere and break her engagement. When her appeals to him fail, she decides to take a singular opportunity--a visit to the Chateau Debauchery--to experience one night of pleasure before she submits herself to a life of wedded dullness.

Englishwoman Grace Ellington has made a home in Scotland, but to escape from the meddling people around her who seem to think she needs to wed right away she volunteers to journey north to aid a friend in childbirth. Keir MacKinnon, the younger brother of the MacKinnon clan chief, has been raised to strike fear in people, on and off the battlefield. Trained to uphold MacKinnon law, he has hardened into a lethal warrior. Caught in a Highland blizzard with the feisty Grace, Keir realizes the beautiful woman who saved him can also save his nephew's life.

A seaside village, an English country house, a family of wealthy eccentrics, a determined detective - all the ingredients are here for a cozy Agatha Christie-style whodunit. But wait. Edward "Mitch" Mitchell is no Hercule Poirot, and The Back Passage is no Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Mitch is a handsome, insatiable 22-year-old hunk who never lets a clue stand in the way of a steamy encounter, whether it's with the local constabulary, the house secretary, or his school chum and fellow athlete Boy Morgan, who becomes his Watson when they're not busy boffing each other.

Love doesn’t come easy. That is what Jonathon Edward Railey, eighth viscount of Aunton, found out the hard way. With his burden of family debt and eight younger brothers to feed, what woman would stick around? Miss Isabel Hathaway might have loved the viscount once, but she would be damned if she would allow him to marry her for her money. Better to have never loved at all then to have him bought. When fate throws them together again, will the love they once had be enough to see them through a new storm? Or are they destined to a life of want and heartbreak?

In this scorching-hot regency romance, the Marquess of Alastair has doubled the dowry he is providing Miss Abbott because the sooner she is married, the sooner she is out of his care - and his fantasies. To Mildred Abbott's dismay, her dowry is now attracting numerous unwanted suitors, and she has no interest in marrying. What she wants is an encore of her night at the Ch'teau Debauchery, where Alastair once fulfilled her most decadent desires.

This classic Victorian tale of a nubile girl's awakenings is a captivating, lighthearted and often humorous romp that explores her ever growing sexual desires. Innocence meets experience in this lusty narrative as she learns to shed her inhibitions with both men and women. A stimulating look at the breathless pursuits of young adulthood, My Grandmother's Tale is an outrageously unrestrained memoir that details the passions of a young woman learning the forbidden pleasures of the body.

“Liz Carlyle weaves passion and intrigue with a master’s touch.” —Karen Robards With One Touch of Scandal, acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Liz Carlyle arrives at Avon Books and launches a breathtaking new historical romance series centered around the Zeno Society, a...

"L'amante di Lady Chatterley", dello scrittore inglese D.H.Lawrence, è uno dei romanzi erotici più celebri e scandalosi del Novecento...

L'amante di Lady Chatterley, di D.H.Lawrence, fu definito "il più indecente romanzo del mondo", tanto è vero che nonostante sia stato scritto tra il 1926 e il 1928, fu pubblicato soltanto nel 1960. Quest'opera fu infatti proibita per molti anni, a causa della sua esplicita rappresentazione del sesso, e fu al centro di un sensazionale processo per oscenità che fece molto scalpore nell'Inghilterra di quell'epoca, in verità, neanche troppo lontana.

La Contessa vedova Anna von Silfverhuus ha passato anni e anni sposata con un uomo che aveva perso da tempo ogni interesse per lei. Adesso che lui è morto, lei può abbandonare la sua vecchia vita e ricominciare da capo. Vende subito il Castello di Mangeby, dove avevano abitato insieme, e si avvia alla conquista di Stoccolma: delle sue attrazioni culturali e dei suoi uomini. La città ospita una miriade di uomini che farebbero la fila per corteggiare una donna bellissima e benestante come lei.