When middle-aged broker English Jacky S. meets the daughter of his friend and acquaintance for the first time he is immediately taken with the bright young Parisian. Enamoured by her beauty and more so by her apparent lack of naivety, Jack and Lilian will enter into a sordid affair of lust and sexual enlightenment that will drive each of them wild with abandon. But how far can Jack test Lilian s limits without knowing how his erotic education is truly effecting her. And is every act of libidinous deed and device that occurs how Jack remembers it. Desperate for each-other will their physical want get the better of the them or will their feelings give way to something more profound. Anonymously written in 1901 and published by the infamous Victorian erotic publisher Charles Carrington, this classic of once-suppressed literature, told in part by way of revealing letters in an unabashed and sumptuously graphic prose, captures the decadent underbelly of late nineteenth century Paris.