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The first great American novel, albeit one written by a Frenchman. Chateaubriand's classic tale of Indian amours was, with Lewis' The Monk and Coleridge's opium dealer, the inspiration for all Romantic works to follow.
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In America, Bob Stirling, wiped out in a stock market panic, also enters a career of service to the fairer sex. His priapic prowess takes him from barroom to bedroom, from a girl's school to a plantation where he founds a multi-generational commune, one where sex beyond compare is every man's (and woman's) share. Paradise now-for "The Town Bull."
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A young man in Greenwich Village, getting high on grass and chicks (including a double-date with Siamese Twins) portrays those of the Love Generation, whom the author calls Orgasm Addicts.
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Fletcher Farrow's life depended on how long he could rise to the occasion... and he knew the ax would fall if once he failed to raise his head. Additional: Excellent translation of hangul in this story of a man imprisoned by the Korean Empress. We're not sure that Korea actually ever had a ruling empress, but what the heck?
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SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE IN THE LOVE COLLECTIVE
When the strict and hard rules of married life prevented the total expression of free love, the most fashionable couples in Paris did something about it. The Love Sect was the result; an exclusive and intimate society where everyone tossed off their restraint along with their clothes in a frantic and thrill-seeking grope for new, untried pleasures . . . and partners in sex. Passions unleashed, they became insatiable in their quest for the unusual and the bizarre, unaware that they were sowing the seeds of their own, destruction. Now in an unexpurgated English translation, The Love Sect is a vivid and shocking account of unbridled and licentious orgies celebrated in the intolerance and decay of fin de siecle society. -
The intimate and revealing confessions of a young girl devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and the pleasures of the flesh.
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Another of Olympia's titles to take a closer look at what goes on inside the cloister, Flesh and Bone is best remembered for its stunning morning scene, wherein a newly-married couple, fresh off their wedding night, suddenly discovers that a large birthmark has transferred from the face of the husband to that of the wife.
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One of the few books to be published under the Othello imprint, The Corpse Wore Grey is, as you might expect a mystery novel. A detective (actually, writer of detective fiction), is called into a rich man's hope for help in finding someone. While there, he meets up with the professor's daughter, and not a few other women along the way. There are fistfights, shootings, and a twist at the end. In reading this book, you have to admire the author's dedication in preparing his cross-over, but also think to yourself about the world that was changing. The hard-boiled paperback originals market of the '50s was already in marked decline, sadly, or Mr. O'Neill's work could perhaps be better known today. Though some might wonder why the sidekick got that much action...
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Solving a perplexing mystery, we're glad to say this is not one of Olympia's famous non-fiction works. In fact, How to Do It is Bull Sultan--the scourge of the South Pacific--took whatever he wanted from the island paradise, until he maimed the gentle Ming Li and wrecked Jim Crawford's life . . . Now Jim seeks a bloody vengeance, and nothing will stop him, not the sinister Chinese plot nor his new love, the voluptuous spy, Sheila.
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A young underground film-maker ranges from state to state, from lover to lover, from sex to sex, in his wild journey of self-discovery.
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Originally published in an expurgated version by Sartre in 1947, I'm for Hire is the first-person account of a Paris prostitute who works both sides of the conflict between France and Germany, also taking her clientele from the Americans and Arabs. The author was not identified until after Olympia's version was published (as part of the Traveller's Companion series in 1955.) Later subtitled "The Memoirs of a Prostitute" in numerous pirate versions, this book was translated into English by OP workhore Austryn Wainhouse. Its most-endearing quality is the graphic accounts of a mind focused on survival, and seeking simple comforts from women and other lovers in an incredibly brutal world, as our narrator describes her travels through occupied France, into Berlin, back again, along with the new problems liberation brings for her and her sisters.
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Upper middle class housewife gets a tabloid of her daughter living out loud in the hippie culture. Mom goes on a quest to find her daughter, in the process finding in herself previously-unexplored depths of sensuality.
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Written prior to the author's Deva Dasi, and first published in 1956 as number 31 in the Traveller's Companion series, Kama Houri is Mardaan's tale of young Ann Pemberton, a beautiful young naif who visits India during Victoria's reign. Finding herself possessed of many strange urges, she's alone with a soldier in her father, the colonel's native cavalry. And things get very interesting from that point.
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A surprisingly quaint novel about a guy in L.A., living the Hollywood dream. To our knowledge the only TC book that takes the time to X@ out its dirty words, and even includes such Hemingway-esque phrases as "unprintable." Still, the author meant well, as, in a contrived "read this" scene, he works in knowledge of titles like Deveraux's Venus In India, Autobiography of a Flea and The Debauched Hospodar. Reading this, you can almost picture the typist sitting at his desk, with a pile of misnomered Collector's Publications at hand, trying to make a go of it. Too bad he was stuck with the Brandon House guidelines. There are trampolines.
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Collection of tales of indeterminate origin, remembered for the first story, a doozy of the Victorian imagination. Wagering as to whether the author was really British goes off 3-1 against, but the volume earned a couple stars on Amazon.
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To cash in on the whirlwind success of Candy, somebody wrote a follow-up about young Peter, a remarkably endowed young innocent sent on a spiritual quest to undo the impacts of Western moires on his peculiar gift. Has its moments, not least his initiation by Lollipop.
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David and Corky are siblings who grow into middle-class yearnings against the backdrop of suburbia. Both come to reject their parental-imposed values, with David in particular developing an existentialist, id-based life, while his sister seeks satisfaction at college. The pair are on a collision with society... and each other.
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An early TC novel, first published 1955, Rogue Women gives us the wild underside of Paris, with plenty of sex and drugs. Our narrator gets a job offer from the mysterious Johnny, but this is no typical career. The occupation is simple: live to the fullest.
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Sexpo 70 they called the sex fair, dedicated to the proposition that "sex should be a completely pagan fun thing... a rollicking, joyful, yelping, giggling, gamboling game at which any member can play." Except that things soon became more complicated!
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Aspiring novelist searches for his erotic muse. With a great deal of source material upon which to base his masterpiece.
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The last novel in the original Traveller's Companion Series. Era ends with Parkinson's lead character enjoying the ups and downs of life in a six-some.
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A vividly written account of whores and thieves in Paris, covering all sorts of incidental details (like having contacts with a travel agency to find out when busloads of American GI's might pull up somewhere), one seldom thinks about. There's a King here, his main squeeze, other girls who come along, many encounters between the whores, the pimps and the customers, and, at the end, a bit of a falling out, where the pimp gets his. Nicely done and almost readable just for the plot.
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Another member of the Olympia noir sub-category. Guy down on his luck meets the wrong woman at the right time. Things go swimmingly until bodies pile up. Nice read first published 1961 as part of the Ophir Books series. O'Neill also wrote The Corpse Wore Grey. Again, just a little too late for the '50s pulps, a genre in which he would have likely starred.
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von Soda, an author who after a chance encounter with Chester Himes published his novel, Abandon, with Olympia much to his own surprise, then followed it up with this title, The Beaten the Hungry, a far greater success. (The work was pirated in five different languages). The Beaten and the Hungry is the tale of Colette, a girl forced by circumstances into prostitution and the seedy underworld of Paris, her struggles there, the things others teach her about survival, and, betimes, the lovers she takes.
