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20 Erotic Classics
A European Anthology of Desire, Libertine Intrigue, Decadence, and Literary TransgressionBy Giacomo Casanova, Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch, John Cleland, Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay, Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde, D. H. Lawrence, Eliza Haywood, J. P. Jacobsen, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Virginia Woolf, Giovanni Boccaccio, Gustave Flaubert, Denis Diderot
Length331h 7m
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20 Erotic Classics surveys the long, contested history of erotic writing from the Renaissance to modernism, assembling fiction, memoir, philosophical dialogue, satire, and decadent aesthetic prose. Its range encompasses comic sensuality, libertine intrigue, transgressive fantasy, psychological desire, and sharp critiques of social hypocrisy. By placing celebrated narratives of seduction and forbidden longing beside less conventionally canonized provocations, the volume reveals erotic literature as a serious arena for examining power, gender, class, censorship, pleasure, and moral regulation. The contributors span Italian humanism, French Enlightenment libertinism, Victorian and fin-de-siècle decadence, Scandinavian naturalism, and Anglo-American modernism. Figures associated with courtly memoir, the eighteenth-century novel, aestheticism, realism, and experimental modern prose bring markedly different cultural assumptions to questions of intimacy and autonomy. Together, these voices trace changing literary responses to religious authority, bourgeois respectability, colonial modernity, and emerging psychological conceptions of desire, making the anthology a compact history of erotic expression's dialogue with European literary movements. This volume is especially rewarding for readers seeking more than sensation: it offers a comparative education in form, historical context, and the politics of representation. Its varied texts invite close attention to how desire is narrated, stylized, concealed, and contested, while the juxtaposition of periods and traditions fosters an illuminating conversation across the canon.
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GenreRomance
Length331 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Desert Valley (Annotated)
220 Erotic Classics
3The Decameron
4The Induction of the Author to the Following Discourses
5The First Day
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6The First Day, the First Novell
7The First Day, the Second Novell
8The First Day, the Third Novell
9The First Day, the Fourth Novell
10The First Day, the Fift Novell
11The First Day, the Sixt Novell
12The First Day, the Seventh Novell
13The First Day, the Eight Novell
14The First Day, the Ninth Novell
15The First Day, the Tenth Novell
16The Second Day
17The Induction to the Second Day
18The Second Day, the First Novell
19The Second Day, the Second Novell
20The Second Day, the Third Novell
21The Second Day, the Fourth Novell
22The Second Day, the Fift Novell
23The Second Day, the Sixt Novell
24The Second Day, the Seventh Novell
25The Second Day, the Eight Novell
26The Second Day, the Ninth Novell
27The Second Day, the Tenth Novell
28The Third Day
29The Induction to the Third Day
30The Third Day, the First Novell
31The Third Day, the Second Novell
32The Third Day, the Third Novell
33The Third Day, the Fourth Novell
34The Third Day the Fifth Novell
35The Third Day the Sixth Novell
36The Third Day, the Seaventh Novell
37The Third Day, the Eight Novell
38The Third Day, the Ninth Novell
39The Third Day, the Tenth Novell
40The Fourth Day
41The Induction to the Fourth Day
42The Fourth Day, the First Novell
43The Fourth Day, the Second Novell
44The Fourth Day, the Third Novell
45The Fourth Day, the Fourth Novell
46The Fourth Day, the Fift Novell
47The Fourth Day, the Sixth Novell
48The Fourth Day, the Seventh Novell
49The Fourth Day, the Eight Novell
50The Fourth Day, the Ninth Novell
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