Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #898236 in Books
• Published on: 1995-10-16
• Format: Facsimile
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 220 pages

Customer Reviews

Filhty but fascinating
In Alice a couple spying on another couple screwing in a public park become involved in a steamy group sex scene. In Florence, a New York office girl enjoys sex for the first time sleeping with two men in quick succession! In Memories a man recounts his youth and his teenage initiation into sex by a variety of older women.

This collection of six sensual, yet explicit short stories is thought to have been written for an Oklahoma oil millionaire, Roy M. Johnson. Anais Nin is said to have paid a dollar per page to produce typescripts of explicit erotica for his own private amusement.

This facsimile reproduction also contains an explicit sex manual, Love's Cyclopaedia, originally published with the stories. The introduction by Dr. C.J. Scheiner tells the story of the books first clandestine edition by New York publisher Samuel Roth during the 1940s and, all the evidence for attributing this anonymous work to Anais Nin.

"Extremely filthy...groin gripping...rampant...a great ensemble of work.." Forum. "The highly erotic stories leave nothing to the imagination." Marquis "Unique...torrid...blood stirring...a masterpiece." Redemption (Canada). "Beautifully written." Lust. "Yet another fascinating title." Studio. "Sensuous sexual fantasy." Sydney Morning Herald. "Class stuff." Loaded. "A book that the serious collector cannot be without." Galaxy.

Not worth reading
The cover states written by Anais and 'friends'. Having read quite a bit of Nin's other work, I would be surprised if she contributed one word to this book. the writing was simplistic, and without any of the artistic merit I would have expeted from Nin. A complete waste of time.