{"product_id":"erotic-stories","title":"Erotic Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eErotic Stories\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a treasury of amorous tales from around the world, ranging from ancient Greek myths to modern stories of longing and lust.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the innocent yearning of Daphnis and Chloe evoked by Longus to the sadomasochism of Pauline Réage’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eStory of O\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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, Anaïs Nin and Allan Gurganus—are calculated to unsettle and arouse. Here too are scenes from such classic novels as Choderlos de Laclos’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLes Liaisons Dangereuses\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand Nicholson Baker’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fermata,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003efrom Junichiro Tanizaki’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Key\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand Sarah Waters’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTipping the Velvet.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAccounts of ardor and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"atm_keep-reading-flag\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e\u003ci class=\"fa fa-arrow-down\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHunger 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowan Pelling","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42831231221854,"sku":"9780375712395","price":34.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0641\/0174\/4734\/files\/9780375712395.jpg?v=1780414537","url":"https:\/\/evermorebooks.ca\/products\/erotic-stories","provider":"Evermore Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}