{"product_id":"erotic-stories-rowan-pelling-9780375712395","title":"Erotic Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eErotic Stories \u003c\/i\u003eis a treasury of amorous tales from around the world, ranging from ancient Greek myths to modern stories of longing and lust. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the innocent yearning of Daphnis and Chloe evoked by Longus to the sadomasochism of Pauline R age's \u003ci\u003eStory of O\u003c\/i\u003e, this anthology explores human desire across the ages in all its dark complexity. Whether intensely raw or subtly insinuating, the short stories gathered here--by writers as different as Boccaccio and Chekhov, Ana s Nin and Allan Gurganus--are calculated to unsettle and arouse. Here too are scenes from such classic novels as Choderlos de Laclos's \u003ci\u003eLes Liaisons Dangereuses \u003c\/i\u003eand Nicholson Baker's \u003ci\u003eThe Fermata, \u003c\/i\u003efrom Junichiro Tanizaki's \u003ci\u003eThe Key \u003c\/i\u003eand Sarah Waters's \u003ci\u003eTipping the Velvet. \u003c\/i\u003eAccounts of ardor and transgression also flow from unexpected pens: an astonishingly explicit scene from Edith Wharton's unfinished \"Beatrice Palmato,\" for example, and Guy de Maupassant's heated \"Idyll,\" which describes a young peasant woman offering her breast to a starving stranger on a train. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hunger is the fierce undercurrent to these tales: the gnawing lust of one lover for another, or the greedy pursuit of a particular inclination. The elegant depravity of an eighteenth-century French aristocrat, the dreamlike seductions of an Egyptian jinni in the form of a snake, the brutal anonymity of a highway truck-stop encounter--the stories in this richly varied collection reveal that the urge to articulate sexual desire is as inventive as it is timeless.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rowan Pelling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0375712399\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375712395\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 5.00w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2014 pg. 85","brand":"Rowan Pelling","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43919615459583,"sku":"9780375712395","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_05275b5c-a873-4de2-bd17-abe5ba460807.jpg?v=1680810374","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/erotic-stories-rowan-pelling-9780375712395","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}