Return to the Chateau
10 best books like Return to the Chateau (Pauline Réage): The Songs of Bilitis, Monsieur, Kiss, Kiss / Switch Bitch / My Uncle Oswald, Louisa May Alcott: An Intimate Anthology, St. Mawr/The Man Who Died, Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America, The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection, The Innocent Libertine, Comrade Loves of the Samurai, Small Avalanches and Other Stories
| Author | Pierre Louÿs |
| ISBN | 0486256707 |
Et maintenant, sur les pâles prairies d'asphodèles, je me promène, ombre impalpable, et le souvenir de ma vie terrestre est la joie de ma vie souterraine.
Quelques illustrations de George Barbier(1882-1932):
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| Author | Lawrence Durrell |
| ISBN | 0571106609 |
Shimmering with sensuous ecstasy, dark with terror and mystery, this is the extraordinary novel of a "happy trinity of lovers." The diplomat Piers, his sister Sylvie, and the English doctor Bruce are at the heart of Durrell's new creation, as is the medieval walled city of Avignon. And haunting them...
| Author | Roald Dahl |
| ISBN | 0965076474 |
For short stories that manage to be funny, sexy, and macabre all at one, here are Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch, two collections by "the absolute master of the twist-in-the-tale," says the Observers. My Uncle Oswald is a hilarious novel that follows the erotic exploits of the "the greatest fornicator of...
| Author | Louisa May Alcott |
| ISBN | 0385487223 |
1) The Rival Painters: A Tale of Rome
2) The Rival Prima Donnas
3) The Frost-King: or, The Power of Love
4) The Lady and the Woman
5) Love and Self-Love
6) Hope's Debut
7) Thrice Tempted
8) Perilous Play
9) M.L.
10) A Night
11) The Blue and the Gray, A Hospital Sketch
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| Author | D.H. Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0394700716 |
These two brilliant novels are deservedly among Lawrence's most popular works. Both are at the same time exciting narratives and striking expressions of Lawrence's philosophy. St. Mawr is the story of a splendid stallion in whose vitality the heroine finds the quality that is lacking in the men she...
| Author | David Willis McCullough |
| ISBN | 0394540654 |
For enthralling suspense and brilliant detection, there has never been a collection to match this one, with complete novels by Ross Macdonald and Ruth Rendell, a novella by Israel Zangwill, and sixteen short stories by the best mystery writers from England and America—Dorothy Sayers, G.K. Chesterton,...
| Author | Clifton Fadiman |
| ISBN | 0395368057 |
At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of...
| Author | Colette |
| ISBN | 0374176825 |
Colette et le lion
La curiosité m'a mis ce petit roman dans les mains, et je l'ai dévoré d'une traite, avec le plus grand plaisir. Il est question de Minne, une jeune fille de bonne famille, qui, quoiqu'elle paraisse la plus rangée du monde, ne laisse pas d'être fascinée par le monde...
| Author | Saikaku Ihara |
| ISBN | 4805307714 |
Ihara Saikaku é um autor japonês do séc. 17, na era Endo. Este livro contêm contos homoeroticos (nanshoku = amor entre homens) entre samurais, monges budistas e atores do teatro Noh. Muitos destes contos sao tragédias amorosas de fazer inveja a Romeu e Julieta, com personagens cometendo harakiri...
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0060012196 |
When The Sky Blue Ball comes soaring over the fence, a high-school girl is confronted with the haunting memory of childhood. A jealous teen lets her cousin go off alone with a dangerous Capricorn, aware of the terrifying possibilities. A vulnerable young girl cunningly outwits a menacing stranger...
| Author | Ethan Mordden |
| ISBN | 0312168675 |
Fiction. You know that feeling you get when you're reading a book and stubbornly wishing that the characters were gay even though you know you're only going to be disappointed? I really didn't have that problem here. Everyone in it is gay: the insecure cop working vice, the Kid putting on a burlesque act...
| Author | Laura Antoniou |
| ISBN | 0964596059 |
In The Slave, the author did a very good job of expressing Robin's viewpoint and motivation. I have no personal interest in following her path, and yet I was able to understand why she would do so. In almost all the BDSM fiction I've read so far trust has been emphasized as an essential part of a healthy D/s...
| Author | Jack Rinella |
| ISBN | 1881943038 |
Jack Rinella is a columnist for Gay Chicago and has been an active leathersex top with over 17 years of experience. In this book he relays personal experience of leatherfolk, scenes, kink and becoming a successful leather top. Written in an addictive first-person format, The Master's Manual offers...
Different Loving: A Complete Exploration of the World of Sexual Dominance and Submission
| Author | Gloria G. Brame |
| ISBN | 0679769560 |
Different loving is a rather innocuous title. Why did I not know of this book when I was first getting into BDSM? Had I read this book when I was 18, when the book came out in ’93, life would have been less confusing for me in a sexual manner. Many of the questions I’ve had over the years are all listed and...
| Author | Emmanuelle Arsan |
| ISBN | 0802130690 |
This now classic book of erotica is, alongside Story of O, the most famous French underground novel of the late twentieth century and a work of seductive literary merit. Written by the wife of a diplomat in the French Foreign Service, it takes the form of an autobiographical novel, which it may or may not...
The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage
| Author | Midori |
| ISBN | 1890159387 |
From ornately decorative to excruciatingly stringent, Japanese rope bondage is an art which has developed over centuries of martial and erotic practice. Now, accomplished Japanese-born pro-domme and bondage practitioner Midori shows step by step how to achieve beautiful and exciting Japanese...
