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"My Secret Life", the gargantuan erotic autobiography of a wealthy Victorian English gentleman has been described as "the strangest book ever written". Comprising one-hundred-and-eighty-four chapters and over one million words, the epic confessional describes in eloquent and explicit detail the exploits of a man (who refers to himself simply as "Walter"), whose life was devoted to the pursuit of erotic adventure and carnal pleasure.

When De Cocksdorp's head dyker Joosie Twaat wakes to find her finger has been sloppily inserted in her own now-leaking dyke, François and his crew immediately come to help De Cocksdorp. But small leaks become large leaks, and large leaks become gushes. And before long, Joosie's gaping dyke threatens to flood the whole town.

My Secret Life, the gargantuan erotic autobiography of a wealthy Victorian English gentleman has been described as "the strangest book ever written". Comprising one-hundred-and-eighty-four chapters and over one million words, the epic confessional describes in eloquent and explicit detail the exploits of a man (who refers to himself simply as "Walter"), whose life was devoted to the pursuit of erotic adventure and carnal pleasure.

"My Secret Life", the gargantuan erotic autobiography of a wealthy Victorian English gentleman has been described as "the strangest book ever written". Comprising one-hundred-and-eighty-four chapters and over one million words, the epic confessional describes in eloquent and explicit detail the exploits of a man (who refers to himself simply as "Walter"), whose life was devoted to the pursuit of erotic adventure and carnal pleasure.

My Secret Life, the gargantuan erotic autobiography of a wealthy Victorian English gentleman has been described as "the strangest book ever written". Comprising one-hundred-and-eighty-four chapters and over one million words, the epic confessional describes in eloquent and explicit detail the exploits of a man (who refers to himself simply as "Walter"), whose life was devoted to the pursuit of erotic adventure and carnal pleasure.

What happens when a serial seductress meets the only man who can claim her heart? With the freedom her status as a lady of immense wealth and aristocratic blood gives her, Alicia Laurence can do anything her heart desires, including seducing her way around the world. However, she is not only a seductress but also a woman of ambition who insists on using her skills for the benefit of her community.

When Princess Guendolen’s privileged existence is shattered by tribal war and the threat of rape impends, she is left with no choice but to surrender her virginity to a lowly commoner. The spoiled sovereign expects a night of torment and shame. Instead, her unlikely bedfellow introduces her to a world of carnal delights.

Love doesn’t come easy. That is what Jonathon Edward Railey, eighth viscount of Aunton, found out the hard way. With his burden of family debt and eight younger brothers to feed, what woman would stick around? Miss Isabel Hathaway might have loved the viscount once, but she would be damned if she would allow him to marry her for her money. Better to have never loved at all then to have him bought. When fate throws them together again, will the love they once had be enough to see them through a new storm? Or are they destined to a life of want and heartbreak?

1717. Pour fuir un mariage arrangé et vivre auprès de l'homme qu'elle aime, Elizabeth, jeune marquise anglaise, accepte de tout quitter et de prendre le large depuis le port de Liverpool. Direction le Nouveau Monde et la nouvelle vie qu'il promet. Mais le destin sépare les deux amants dès les premiers temps du voyage. Elizabeth et Mary, sa domestique et amie de toujours, embarquée à ses côtés, se retrouvent livrées à elles-mêmes dans la promiscuité libidineuse des croisières au long cours.

Ce roman débute par un clin d'œil et un pastiche de "L'amant de lady Chatterley" avant de voler de ses propres ailes et de s'inscrire dans la réalité socioculturelle de la fin du XXe siècle. De l'Angleterre des années 1920, l'auteur a déplacé l'histoire en Sologne, le bourgeois paraplégique des suites de la Grande guerre s'est métamorphosé en vieux banquier stérile, quant au garde-chasse, il est devenu garde-pêche.

Colorado, été 1973. June, épouse dévouée, est initiée par Elsa, sa jeune voisine sulfureuse, à des jeux interdits. Suite à l'insistante proposition de sa maîtresse, elle quitte son mari et accepte de partir en cavale à ses côtés. Sur les routes, les deux amantes s'enivrent d'amour et de sexe. Au gré de leurs pérégrinations, elles rencontrent une communauté hippie aux manières licencieuses et Sacha, grand ténébreux qui devient leur compagnon de voyage. Mais ce que June ignore, c'est le plan d'Elsa.

In this scorching-hot regency romance, the Marquess of Alastair has doubled the dowry he is providing Miss Abbott because the sooner she is married, the sooner she is out of his care - and his fantasies. To Mildred Abbott's dismay, her dowry is now attracting numerous unwanted suitors, and she has no interest in marrying. What she wants is an encore of her night at the Ch'teau Debauchery, where Alastair once fulfilled her most decadent desires.

The widowed Duchess of Sailer has desires that are hard to fill in polite society. To that effect, she visits a brothel to have her bottom reddened. If word got out, her reputation would be ruined. So, when a member of society is murdered, and her name turns up in the books he is using to blackmail people, the metropolitan police show up on her doorstep. Olivia does the only thing she can to keep her name from being dragged through the mud: she agrees to take the investigator into her life so she can help him find a killer. Inspector Rupert McKinley expects to get in and out, and figure out who killed Lord Ethan. He doesn't care about Olivia's desires...until he starts to spend time with her, and realizes she's more interesting than he ever expected her to be. When their business relationship turns into a personal one, Rupert is determined to find the murderer before someone else - like Olivia - is killed.

Tey arrives in town unprepared for the sight of a pretty young woman being attacked by her own father. He quickly finds the appealing blonde is on his mind day and night, and before long he is smitten. Tey has his work cut out for him on two fronts. Uncover the identity of the thieves and convince Sunny that while he adores her dancing skills, he wants to be the sole member of her audience. Will Sunny allow herself to believe she can be loved even though she is a fallen woman - often falling over the handsome gunslinger's lap?

Victorian England is not kind to those born without privilege, and yet Lillian Lancaster has made a home for herself and a scrawny feral cat. Lilly is happiest working in the gardens, knowing she can never match their beauty. She is one of the flower-girls on the streets selling the bouquets she makes with love for mere pennies.

In the roaring '20s, Charlie Doyle, the ink still wet on his Dartmouth journalism degree, answers an ad for a job as secretary to Edward Kilsby, Lord Withycombe and renowned flying ace of the Great War. The ad leads him to expect excitement, but Charlie never expects quite so much. When Edward is hired to find missing archaeologist Sir Alexander Spencer, Charlie is about to go for the ride of his life.

Spirited Chelsea decided she'd sooner run away to London than return to her vain and selfish guardian Aunt Augusta. But in her wildest dreams, she never imagined her dear godmother would arrange a Season - or convince the town's most eligible bachelor to take her under his wing.

Au XVIIIe siècle, dans le Paris de Louis XV, le marquis de Puycarné écrit à la duchesse de Laurencin pour la rencontrer et l'informer que son mari est l'amant de sa femme. Fou de rage, le marquis propose à la duchesse de venger leur double affront en devenant, à leur tour, amant et maîtresse. Née d'un besoin de vengeance, leur relation devient passionnelle, chacun des amants voulant explorer toujours plus loin les domaines du plaisir.

"L'amante di Lady Chatterley", dello scrittore inglese D.H.Lawrence, è uno dei romanzi erotici più celebri e scandalosi del Novecento...

L'amante di Lady Chatterley, di D.H.Lawrence, fu definito "il più indecente romanzo del mondo", tanto è vero che nonostante sia stato scritto tra il 1926 e il 1928, fu pubblicato soltanto nel 1960. Quest'opera fu infatti proibita per molti anni, a causa della sua esplicita rappresentazione del sesso, e fu al centro di un sensazionale processo per oscenità che fece molto scalpore nell'Inghilterra di quell'epoca, in verità, neanche troppo lontana.