The erotic anthology

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SEX FRAMED IN FINE LITERATURE - Acts of lust, love, and violence are made graphic and memorable in this unique collection of erotic stories from the 19th and 20th Centuries selected to reflect the broad spectrum of sexual emotions and behaviour besetting the human condition from youth to age. Sex is not obscene in the hands of superb writers. Their words awaken exquisite sensibilities, evoke tender memories, and spur thought while they titillate and arouse. Many readers will recognize real life situations in these tales, webbed with a wide array of tumultuous passions, paradoxes, longings, and natural curiosity. The gusto and humour in the give-and-take of seduction or marriage, the ravages of incompatibility, even racial hatreds arise from the force of man's most overwhelming biological urge. Swingers, whores, cuckolds, sado-masochists, killers, shrews, fools, innocents, the frigid, and the forlorn parade through these pages as immortal symbols of the strange ways in which our sexual instincts cause us to operate.