We are pleased to announce the publication of this anthology's highly anticipated second edition, showcasing a meticulously curated selection of erotic and romantic literary works from Russia's most esteemed authors and talented anonymous spanning both Imperial and Soviet eras. Most of the stories were previously unavailable to English-language audiences. This collection distinguishes itself through deliberate emphasis on artistic depth and literary sophistication, consciously favoring dis...

Volume 19 of the VICTORIAN PASSIONS series continues the intimate journey through Frank Harris’s scandalous autobiography My Life and Loves, bringing the reader into the tempestuous decades of his maturity, when desire, ambition, and disillusionment are inseparable. Here the celebrated editor, critic, and libertine turns his unflinching gaze on the world after the First World War, on the collapse of old certainties, and on the price of telling the truth about sex, art, and power. Written i...

This volume offers a rare chance to explore Victorian and Edwardian erotic literature in its original voice, bringing together several unexpurgated novels and flagellation tales that were once printed for private circulation only. The book is a historical erotica anthology that combines classic fiction, libertine adventure, and literary curiosities, making it both a sensual read and a document of its time. Readers interested in Victorian passions, Edwardian decadence, and the secret underw...

Victorian Passions Volume 20 immerses readers in the shadowy undercurrents of passion and power during the waning years of Peter the Great's Russia and beyond. This anthology gathers rare erotic classics, blending historical authenticity with unbridled sensuality. Grushenka. Three Times a Woman by Anonymous traces a serf girl's ascent from household drudgery to madam of a lavish brothel, capturing the brutal hierarchies of serfdom and the intoxicating allure of forbidden desires. Grushenka...

Victorian Passions: Volume I opens a 21-volume anthology of pre-World War II erotic classics, featuring 104 titles mostly written under pseudonyms or anonymously. This first collection includes eight stories that explore unrestrained desire across 18th- and 19th-century settings. Authors such as Beauregard de Farniente, Jean-Charles Gervaise De Latouche, John Cleland, Fougeret de Montbron, Restif de la Bretonne, Jonathan Richardson, and anonymous writers shaped these narratives wi...

Dive into the sultry undercurrents of Victorian erotica with this meticulously curated anthology from the Victorian Passions series, volume 21. This collection gathers seven rare gems of forbidden desire, each a testament to the era's masterful blend of literary finesse and unbridled sensuality. From the bold escapades in The Adventures of Claudia to the scandalous family intrigues of The She-Devils, or Three Daughters of their Mother, these narratives explore the hidden passions that simm...

Victorian Passions Volume 14 curates a provocative anthology of rare Victorian erotica, uniting three anonymous gems: The Autobiography of a Flea by Stanislas de Rhodes, Julie, and Maude Cameron and Her Guardian. This collection delves into the shadowed realms of 19th-century desire, where youthful innocence collides with unbridled lust amid rigid social facades. Through masterful prose, it unveils the era's clandestine sensual adventures, from garden seductions to convent excesses, captur...

Victorian Passions Volume 13 unveils a daring anthology of classic erotica from the late 19th century, blending forbidden desires with the era's veiled social critiques. This meticulously curated collection resurrects six provocative tales, spanning youthful indiscretions, institutional perversions, and raw explorations of power and consent. Crafted amid the repressive Victorian moral facade, these narratives pulse with libertine fervor, where innocence shatters against unbridled lust, off...

Immerse yourself in the fifth volume of a luxurious 21-volume Victorian Passions edition resurrecting the most daring erotic classics from the Victorian era, published before World War II. This collector's anthology gathers three rare masterpieces that once circulated in underground circles, pushing the boundaries of sensuality with raw, unapologetic prose. These works capture the era's hidden undercurrents of desire, where social propriety masked insatiable passions among the elite. The O...

Victorian Passions Volume 4 immerses readers in the clandestine world of 19th-century erotica, presenting a curated collection of rare, unexpurgated Victorian works that explore desire, seduction, and forbidden pleasures with unflinching candor. This volume gathers five seminal texts from the era's shadowy literary underground: The Pearl Complete, a notorious periodical anthology of ribald tales and racy poetry celebrating hedonistic escapades; Emily: Or, the Voluptuo...

In the third volume of Victorian Passions, the veiled sensual world of the nineteenth century emerges through four rare and anonymous works that blend elegance with erotic candor. Beneath layers of restraint and convention, these stories explore the transformation of innocence into desire, the collision of virtue and passion, and the moral paradoxes that defined the Victorian imagination. The Romance of Violette introduces a tender yet daring awakening, where purity gives way to self‑knowl...

Volume 12 gathers a selection of late nineteenth-century erotic tales that weave explicit encounters with sharp insights into human desire and social restraint. Spanning 1897 to 1899, this anthology captures moments of seduction and awakening in Victorian drawing rooms, modest lodgings, and hidden corners of London life. The stories reveal how passion disrupts the era's rigid decorum, blending candid physicality with reflections on class, youth, and forbidden curiosity. Preserved as a cura...