My Secret Life: The Complete Unabridged Volumes I. to III.
A Victorian Erotic Memoir of Confession, Urban Life, Class, and RepressionBy Anonymous
Length26h 15m
About this audiobook
My Secret Life: The Complete Unabridged Volumes I to III is a vast Victorian erotic memoir, presented as the candid record of a gentleman's sexual education, encounters, fantasies, and reflections. Its first-person narration combines anecdotal immediacy with obsessive cataloguing: episodes are arranged less as a polished plot than as an accumulating archive of experience. The plain, often clinical diction, explicit vocabulary, and insistence on social detail place the work within the nineteenth-century traditions of clandestine autobiography, pornography, and urban documentary. At the same time, its scrutiny of class, gender, prostitution, marriage, and masculine desire gives it significance beyond the sensational, revealing the tensions between Victorian respectability and private conduct. The author remains anonymous, signing himself only through the constructed persona of "Walter." That anonymity was essential in an era when publication of such material invited prosecution and social ruin, and it also complicates the book's claims to truth. Whether read as literal testimony, elaborate self-fashioning, or a composite fantasy, the narrative reflects contemporary sexual knowledge, commercial print culture, and the limitations imposed by censorship. Its extraordinary length suggests an author driven not merely to confess, but to preserve and systematize forbidden experience. This edition is recommended to readers of Victorian cultural history, sexuality studies, autobiography, and the history of censorship. It demands critical distance regarding its voyeuristic perspective and gender politics, yet rewards sustained reading with an unusually detailed portrait of illicit life and the imaginative boundaries of nineteenth-century literature.
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GenreBiography and Memoir
Length26 hrs 15 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 10, 2013
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1My Secret Life Volumes I. to III. An anonymous masterpiece of erotica, sex & pornography
26CHAPTER VII.
2MY SECRET LIFE
27CHAPTER VIII.
3INTRODUCTION
28CHAPTER IX.
4PREFACE
29CHAPTER X.
5SECOND PREFACE
30CHAPTER XI.
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6CHAPTER I.
31CHAPTER XII.
7CHAPTER II.
32CHAPTER XIII.
8CHAPTER III.
33CHAPTER XIV.
9CHAPTER IV.
34CHAPTER XV.
10CHAPTER V.
35CHAPTER XVI.
11CHAPTER VI.
36CHAPTER XVII.
12CHAPTER VII.
37CHAPTER XVIII.
13CHAPTER VIII.
38CHAPTER XIX.
14CHAPTER IX.
39CHAPTER XX.
15CHAPTER X.
40CHAPTER XXI.
16CHAPTER XI.
41CHAPTER I.
17CHAPTER XII.
42CHAPTER II.
18CHAPTER XIII.
43CHAPTER III.
19CHAPTER XIV.
44CHAPTER IV.
20CHAPTER I.
45CHAPTER V.
21CHAPTER II.
46CHAPTER VI.
22CHAPTER III.
47CHAPTER VII.
23CHAPTER IV.
48CHAPTER VIII.
24CHAPTER V.
49CHAPTER IX.
25CHAPTER VI.
50CHAPTER X.
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