The Erotic Anthology. Sensuality and its side effects probed in pungent short stories by some of the world's greatest writers. Published in October 1972, New American Library ([New York]) The Erotic Anthology. Edited by P. H. Porosky. Change Cover works: The erotic anthology By statement: Edited by P. H. Porosky. Series: A Signet book Language: English Pagination: 384 p. LCCN: 72170336 Dewey: 808.83/1 LC: PZ1.P82 Er, PN6071.E7 Er Genre: Erotica Subject: Short Stories - Fiction.

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First sentence: The lord of Valennes, a pleasant place, of which the castle is not far from the town of Tilhouse, had taken a mean wife, who by reason of taste or antipathy, pleasure or displeasure, health or sickness, allowed her good husband to abstain from those pleasures stipulated for in all contracts of marriage.

SEX FRAMED IN FINE LITERATURE - Acts of lust, love, and violence are made graphic and memorable in this unique collection of erotic stories from the 19th and 20th Centuries selected to reflect the broad spectrum of sexual emotions and behaviour besetting the human condition from youth to age.

Sex is not obscene in the hands of superb writers. Their words awaken exquisite sensibilities, evoke tender memories, and spur thought while they titillate and arouse.

Many readers will recognize real life situations in these tales, webbed with a wide array of tumultuous passions, paradoxes, longings, and natural curiosity. The gusto and humour in the give-and-take of seduction or marriage, the ravages of incompatibility, even racial hatreds arise from the force of man's most overwhelming biological urge.

Swingers, whores, cuckolds, sado-masochists, killers, shrews, fools, innocents, the frigid, and the forlorn parade through these pages as immortal symbols of the strange ways in which our sexual instincts cause us to operate.

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	Introduction by P. H. Porosky		ix
	THE MAID OF TILHOUSE by Honore de Balzac		17
	A COCK CROWED by Guy de Maupassant		23
	THE CLERK'S QUEST by George Moore		28
	THE CHEMIST'S WIFE by Anton Chekhov		33
	IN THE MODERN VEIN: AN UNSYMPATHETIC LOVE STORY by H. G. Wells		39
	MIMI by Arnold Bennett		49
	THE MAN WHO BECAME A WOMAN by Sherwood Anderson		65
	AN ENCOUNTER by James Joyce		94
	THE PRINCESS by D. H. Lawrence		102
	LOVERS OF THE LAKE by Sean O'Faolain		141
	THE MAN OF THE WORLD by Frank O'Connor		166
	DRY SEPTEMBER by William Faulkner		173
	THE KNIFE OF THE TIMES by William Carlos Williams		184
	THE INNOCENT by Graham Greene		187
	GIMPEL THE FOOL by Isaac Bashevis Singer		192
	THE GIRLS IN THEIR SUMMER DRESSES by Irwin Shaw		206
	BERTHE by Henry Miller		212
	WHILE GOING NORTH by James B. Hall		221
	HAPPY MARRIAGE by R. V. Cassill		228
	THE MATTRESS BY THE TOMATO PATCH by Tennessee Williams		236
	LUCY GRANGE by Doris Lessing		246
	THE TIME OF HER TIME by Norman Mailer		251
	PINS AND MEDALS by J. P. Donleavy		277
	THE BAMBOO BED by William Eastlake		279
	OH, THE WONDER! by Jeremy Larner		285
	CONTOURS by John Weston		304
	HOOTERASSING by W. A. Roecker		318
	OF OUR TIME by Alan Lelchuk		326
	SWAN FEAST by William Mathes		373