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My Secret Life Volumes I. to III. An anonymous masterpiece of erotica, sex & pornography
A Victorian Erotic Memoir of Forbidden Desire and Social HypocrisyBy Anonymous
Length26h 14m
About this audiobook
My Secret Life, Volumes I to III, presents an expansive, unapologetically explicit record of Victorian sexual experience, narrated by an unnamed gentleman whose encounters range across courtship, prostitution, clandestine affairs, and erotic experimentation. Written in a plain, observational prose that combines autobiographical confession with the cataloguing impulse of a social document, the work occupies an unusual position between pornography, memoir, and unofficial cultural history. Its repetitive detail, pseudonymous voices, and insistence on bodily experience challenge the moral conventions of nineteenth-century literature while revealing the period's anxieties concerning class, gender, privacy, and sexual knowledge. The volumes are therefore significant not only for their erotic content but also for their representation of urban life and illicit desire. The author remains officially anonymous, a strategy that reflects both the legal dangers and social stigma surrounding such writing in Victorian Britain. The text's extraordinary scope and documentary tone suggest an author fascinated by classification, sexual custom, and the hidden structures of respectable society. Although its precise authorship has long been debated, the work's sustained first-person perspective creates a compelling literary persona: observant, acquisitive, and determined to preserve experiences that conventional memoir would suppress. Its production belongs to a clandestine print culture in which private reading and underground circulation enabled forbidden forms of self-expression. This edition is recommended to readers interested in Victorian studies, the history of sexuality, underground publishing, and the boundaries between autobiography and pornography. It should be approached critically, with attention to its power relations and historical limitations, yet it remains an important primary text for understanding how desire was narrated, regulated, and imagined in the nineteenth century.
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GenreRomance
Length26 hrs 14 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 30, 2012
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Power of Mesmerism
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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