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The Romance of Lust (The Complete Volumes) - A classic Victorian erotic, sex & pornographic novel
A Victorian Confession of Desire, Secrecy, and Social HypocrisyBy Anonymous
Length19h 14m
About this audiobook
The Romance of Lust is a substantial example of Victorian erotic fiction, combining the conventions of the Bildungsroman, the picaresque narrative, and the private confession with an explicitly sexual subject matter. Presented in complete form, the work follows its protagonist through a succession of encounters that test the boundaries of respectable conduct, religious morality, gender roles, and domestic propriety. Its prose alternates between elaborate descriptive passages and direct, episodic narration, revealing both the imaginative freedom and the repetitive structures characteristic of nineteenth-century clandestine pornography. Read in literary context, the novel offers valuable evidence of the era's underground print culture and of the tensions between public prudery and private curiosity. Published anonymously, the book reflects the conditions under which Victorian erotic literature commonly circulated: authorship was concealed, editions were often privately produced, and texts navigated censorship through disguise, pseudonymity, and restricted distribution. The writer's identity remains uncertain, but the narrative's sustained attention to education, authority, desire, and social hypocrisy suggests an author attentive to contemporary moral discourse as well as sexual fantasy. Its historical significance lies partly in this negotiation between literary form and forbidden subject. Recommended for readers of Victorian popular literature, censorship history, gender studies, and erotic writing, The Romance of Lust is best approached as both a provocative narrative and a document of nineteenth-century cultural history. Readers should expect explicit adult material, but will also find a revealing artifact of how fiction challenged—and exploited—the moral boundaries of its age.
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GenreRomance, Literary Classics
Length19 hrs 14 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 10, 2013
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Frankenstein (The Uncensored 1818 Edition) (Annotated)
2The Romance of Lust (The Complete Volumes) - A classic Victorian erotic, sex pornographic novel
3VOLUME I.
4MRS. BENSON TO THE HON. MRS. EGERTON.
5THE HON. MRS. EGERTON TO MRS. BENSON.
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6VOLUME II. (pt. 1)
7VOLUME II. (pt. 2)
8VOLUME III. (pt. 1)
9VOLUME III. (pt. 2)
10VOLUME III. (pt. 3)
11VOLUME IV. (pt. 1)
12VOLUME IV. (pt. 2)
13LETTERS
14ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE LETTER WRITTEN BY THE COUNT ALMOST ENTIRELY IN CYPHER
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